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Is Your Banking Information Accidentally On Ebay?

Posted by timothy on from the banking-information-eh dept.

GraWil writes "The Toronto Star is reporting how two Bank of Montreal computers containing thousands, of sensitive customer files were sold to a student who fixes up machines and then resells them on eBay. It seems that the company responsible for scrubbing the disks (Rider Computer Services Ltd.) misfiled the machines in their warehouse and it was assumed they had been erased." It's not the first time this sort of thing has happened.

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  1. My matress won't talk. by Rhinobird · · Score: 5, Funny

    My bank is my matress and if it starts talking, then I have other issues to deal with.

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    1. Re:My matress won't talk. by Robmonster · · Score: 3, Funny

      Have you never heard the expression Money Talks...?

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  2. A good solid brick.. by m_dob · · Score: 5, Funny

    A nice old lady I know who was in Britain's MI5 realised after throwing away her computer that it was not wise to leave a hard drive full of sensitive information. She and her son then drove back to the rubbish dump and pelted the hard drive with bricks until it gave in.

    1. Re:A good solid brick.. by Eric+Ass+Raymond · · Score: 3, Funny
      Well, the British secret service has an amusing history of losing sensitive information...

      "A second British spy has lost a laptop brimming with state secrets after getting "blind drunk" in a London bar."

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  3. I can't help but wonder. by ideatrack · · Score: 4, Funny

    So this kid buys and repairs machines, but didn't even turn the machine on until long after he'd put it up for sale?

    Wow I wish I was as efficient as him...

  4. My Passwords by yuri · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats outrageous, now they have my passwords as well.

    What you guys don't use your social security and bank account numbers as passwords?

  5. Is your banking information accidentally on ebay by Loosewire · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course not - i put it there

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  6. Re:My take by ericisbananaman · · Score: 1, Funny

    reply to self... RTFA :o)

  7. Re:drive erasure by ShadeARG · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about using a/an {insert your favorite audio format here} playlist of music you own and use the same technique? The DMCA would have to be violated many times for your information to be retrieved. Just a thought.

  8. ebay by dmitri2060 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scarey. Humans make mistakes. Security disk cleaning should be done by robot workers run by a robotic management. A huge organization is only as smart as its dumbest employee.

    I hope he got back his ebay listing fees.