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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. This is why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    sensible companies shred their disks and don't ever sell them. Destroying a disk physically is the only way to destroy the data, making no exceptions from destroying obsolete hardware is the only way to avoid fuckups like this.