I notice Deloitte has extended the range of its flexible benefits package for staff with a timely addition. As well as the usual features (ability to purchase additional holiday, travel insurance, dental insurance, childcare vouchers, critical illness cover etc) staff can now acquire 'identity theft protection.... designed to help protect staff from becoming a victim of identity fraud, one of the country’s fastest-growing crimes.' This was presumably put in place before HMRC's slipped discs but I wonder whether take-up of this feature has been higher than usual in recent days.

(Full marks to the firm's press office for announcing the move on the day after HMRC admitted to putting 25 million identities at risk; not so much a day to bury bad news as a day to announce opportunistic news).