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UK Bank Laptop Stolen With 11M Customer Records

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easy-come-easy-go dept.

daveewart writes "BBC News reports that the UK Building Society Nationwide has admitted that a laptop containing account records of more than 11 million customers has been stolen from an employee's home. This story raises a number of worrying questions: The theft happened three months ago, why has the news only just been made public? Why was it possible (indeed, why was it necessary at all) to put data relating to their entire customer base on an employee's laptop stored at an employee's home? Why was the information on the laptop not encrypted?"

3 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. second by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second!

  2. LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    im downliading the lastest peisode of gbatellster galactia on m3 umtz fone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111111 111111111

  3. They need by William+Robinson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They need to check my SIG once...

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    hilarious