[Year 12 IT Apps] Millions of personal records bought on eBay

[Allan Barnes]

This is similar to a story in the news last week about a person who had all
of the personal details of 84,000 prisoners in England and lost the memory
stick. If it wasn’t on the ABC I wouldn’t have believed it.

 

Memory stick with prisoners' addresses lost in UK

Posted Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:49pm AEST 

The British Government says a private contractor working for the Home Office
has lost a computer memory stick containing personal details of all 84,000
prisoners in England and Wales.

The memory stick contains the names, birth dates and release dates of many
inmates, as well as the home addresses of almost half of them.

The Government says the information was not encrypted.

It is the latest in a string of data leaks from British Government
departments, including the admission last November that the confidential
records on 25 million Britons who receive child benefits had been lost.

 

 

Kind regards

 

Allan Barnes, CEO

Australian Institute of Education and Training

P.O. Box 171

Brunswick West 3055

Ph: (03) 9387 2051

FAX: (03) 9387 3470

Mobile: 0409 428 221

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Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2008 6:52 PM
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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Millions of personal records bought on eBay

 

A BRITISH data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff
member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of one million
bank customers. 

The computer was bought on the online auction site for £35 ($75) by Andrew
Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, in central England, who found the
information on the computer's hard drive. 

It included bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and
signatures of one million customers of American Express, NatWest and the
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), The Independent reported. 

It had belonged to data processing company Mail Source which is part of
Graphic Data, a company that holds financial information for banks and other
organisations. 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24250352-5014239,00.html

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