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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. Destroying hard drives for good by Zarhan · · Score: 0, Troll

    There have been other posts how the hard drives should be destroyed and not wiped&sold after usage. A friend of mine once worked at a steel mill. Smashing them to bits with a hammer was not good enough - the used hard drives went directly to the smelted iron...

    No risk of leaking the data through used computers.