HM Customs and Revenue (the British equivalent of the IRS) have lost the personal details of 25 million UK residents. They sent them in the mail, unencrypted!!!!!!!!!!!

Story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7104945.stm

And this is not the first time!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ox/7076106.stm