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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."

2 of 184 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The felonious felons and ther fannies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I see we have some users from Scotland among us...

  2. Re:Hand it back? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    If it's a stolen computer he doesn't own it anyway. "Hot" items can't legally be purchased.