Daily Mirror: BILL MAY HIT £200M

By PAUL BYRNE

FAMILIES and banks could be hit with a £200million bill from the data debacle - even if fears of mass identity fraud are not realised.

Pressure group the TaxPayers' Alliance based the figure on up to 7.2 million people changing bank accounts, pin numbers and passwords - with a cost estimate of around £216million. Research director Corin Taylor said: "Even if the data is not abused, this scandal could be vastly expensive for businesses and families.

"If criminals get hold of this data, the bill will become far worse."