UK bank data found on computer sold on eBay
Published August 29th, 2008
Financial data of over a million UK bank customers has been found on a computer that was sold on eBay.
According to a report by the UK’s Daily Mail, a former employee at digital archiving firm Graphic Data sold the computer on eBay without erasing the hard drive.
IT manager Andrew Chapman, 56, from Oxford, bought the computer and discovered a treasure trove of private financial information, including names, addresses, sort codes and account numbers, credit card numbers and security data such as mothers’ maiden names.
Reports say confidential data belonging to customers of American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest was stored on the hard disk.
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