In what has emerged as the second large scale data blunder in just two days, personal details of over 35,000 taxpayers have been recovered from a computer sold on ebay.

Bought for just £6.99 ($15) the computer’s hard drive contained the names, addresses, bank account details and council tax bills of residents in the Charnwood Borough council area of Leicestershire. Recorded conversations relating to bill payments, divorces and deaths dating as far back as 2002 were also discovered on the computer.