IDENTITY THEFT THREAT TO MILLIONS

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/260926/Identity-theft-threat-to-millions

US giant Hewlett Packard, which has a major contract with the
Department for Work and Pensions, wants to shift 200 IT support jobs
to India from Newcastle, Sheffield and Lytham St Annes as part of a
cost-cutting drive.

If Ministers allow the move to go ahead the details of millions of
benefit claimants, including pensioners and those receiving child
benefit, with names, addresses and bank accounts could all become
available to staff in Bangalore.

The decision by banks to move jobs to India has already led to
widespread fraud and identity theft. In 2005, it emerged that bank and
credit card details were being sold for as little as £3 a person by
subcontractors in India, enabling criminals to raid the accounts of
Britons or clone their cards.
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