Personal Data of 1 Million UK Bank Customers Found on Computer For Sale on eBay
Yet another data disclosure incident from the UK to haunt us all.
A server was sold on eBay, and the buyer was quite surprised to find that it included personal data on a million bank customers who bank with Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and American
Express.
The server belonged to Graphic Data, who stores archives of financial information for banks. An employee somehow got the server and sold it on eBay for less than $100, and didn’t bother to erase the personal financial data of the bank’s customers.
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