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Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay

Posted by kdawson on from the fingers-pointing-in-a-circle dept.

Walpurgiss tips a BBC News story about a man in Oxford who paid $140 for a computer on eBay, and was shocked to find on it bank records of several million customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland, its subsidiary Natwest, and one other bank. "Mr. Chapman said anyone with a basic knowledge of computer software would have been able to find the data fairly simply. 'The information was in back-up CDs and in ISO files so it would have been possibly quite easy to find...,' he said."

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  1. I guess RBS stands for... by volxdragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Really Bad Security instead of Royal Bank of Scotland.

  2. paid $140 for a computer on eBay by flaming+error · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody should have set a much higher reserve price.

    1. Re:paid $140 for a computer on eBay by smoker2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      £77 is how much it cost including ebay fees and paypal !

  3. Bugger.... by s0litaire · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was just going to pick up a cheep 1U server for a Mod Project! Now i've no chance! Everyone will be buying up every server hoping for Disks full of Banking details now!! :(:(

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  4. Re:Honesty by Dekortage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man: "Look, I found eight million customer records on here!"

    Bank tech: "That's weird, we always stored ten million records in those databases..."

    Man: "Huh, no idea what happened to those other two million." (hides batch of CDs) "I can't believe you guys sold 8 million customer records on eBay!"

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  5. Re:Honesty by The+Great+Pretender · · Score: 4, Funny
    Man: "Look, I found eight million customer records on here!"

    Bank tech: "That's weird, we always stored 7 million records in those databases..."

    Bank tech2: "Funny I thought it was 12 million..."

    Bank tech3: "What are records?"

    Bank tech4: "Hey, didn't I just decommission that laptop using that online eBay-thingy service?"

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  6. Re:If he's REALLY Lucky, he could die conveniently by dintech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes and it's still being covered up today. That's why we've modded you -1. :)