Posts Tagged ‘Nat West’

Bank details sold on eBay

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Personal details belonging to customers of Nat West, American Express and Royal Bank of Scotland were discovered on a computer sold on eBay.  An employee of Graphic Data, an archiving firm, sold the PC before erasing the hard drive, though the company described the sale as ‘unplanned’.  This is the latest in a high-profile list of security breaches over personal data which will no doubt culminate in some knee-jerk policy-making on behalf of the government.  The computer was bought for £77 by an IT Manager who said in a statement, ‘Have you tried switching it off and switching it on again?’