Whitehall credit card abuse and payment fraud costs £4m

Financial losses in UK government rose last year despite a decreased number of incidents, according to official Treasury figures. Losses of £4.28m from 761 cases of internal fraud or theft were reported by 25 Whitehall departments during the year ending 31 march 2008. This compares to 1,067 cases costing £3.86m in the …

[Matt]

Has the government considered

not losing 25 million people's personal data?

Might help cut down on fraud, you never know :-)