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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. Destroy, don't sell by Ckwop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, i think that any hard-drive that has been used for that purpose should be securely destroyed instead of being sold. Simon.

  2. PR Shills by CaptainZapp · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Our number one priority as an organization is the protection of customer information," said Dina Palozzi, chief privacy officer for the bank, which swiftly seized the computers' hard drives on Saturday afternoon within 24 hours of learning their whereabouts. "This kind of issue we take very, very seriously."

    Don't you just love it? If protection of customer information indeed is your number one priority then why the fsck don't you have procedures is place, which make such a blunder outright impossible? And if you do have such procedures in place why don't you enforce them?

    Are those PR liars (and what else could such a "chief privacy officer" making such an outragous statement actually be?) all cranked out by the Forked Tongue Institute for Marketing & PR, or what?

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  3. Copyright? by Quixote · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Here's a question. Why is it that the RIAA can (with a straight face) claim that each of their songs that a person shares is worth $150K, and yet my private information with the bank is worth zilch? Why is it that the RIAA can get $12K from a 12-year old girl and yet the general public can get nothing from these companies that share our private information?

    Shouldn't customers' private information have at least as much rights as some stupid Brittany Spears song?