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DWP data breach

Tessiebb · 2019-12-30 18:00:09

June 2018 I received a call from someone I do not know telling me they had received my complete data (Sar) that the dwp hold on me , he got my number from the information he had ! It was addressed to them , this person lives miles away from me too , I contacted the DWP as to what is going on ! The full information was…

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batemansxxxb Posts: 42 Forumite

1 January 2020 at 1:21PM

I received a copy of a letter sent by someone else with my tribunal papers last year, i sent a letter to DWP data controller,informing them that if i was dishonest i could've used this to commit identity fraud & my concern that my info might've been sent to someone else also,needless to say they just brushed me off in a letter asking me to send this to the Glasgow office

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