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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. Honesty by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kudos for him for speaking up rather than trying to abuse the situation.

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    1. Re:Honesty by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Agreed, although we shouldn't be forced to think that doing the right thing is so rare that we must laud it.

      Still, good job.

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  2. Re:Hand it back? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i'd charge the pricks a consulting fee for my time. a few grand should cover it. i certainly wouldn't be handing back what is entirely his property, since he purchased it fair and square they have no recourse.

    Do that and you go straight to jail, don't pass go, don't collect $200. Your consulting fee will be seen as extortion.

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