Thank goodness UK Government seem to have dumped the ID cards fiasco. They cant get even relatively simple systems right (like NHS patient data) so it would have been easy meat for the hackers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13213632

Never had one anyway. Though I think the xbox had a similar problem but that might have been unreated downtime.

The answer is no .

The Sun agrees
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...Brits-urged-to-cancel-their-credit-cards.html