Banking customers’ personal info sold on eBay

Here is a story about a computer server, that was held customer archiving information from the Royal Bank of Scotland, was sold on eBay. The best part is, they did not remove the information off of the HARD DRIVE!

• Story link from msnbc.com, posted on Aug 26, 2008 – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26412391/

A computer containing banking security details of more than 1 million people has been sold on eBay, bank officials said Tuesday.

The Royal Bank of Scotland acknowledged that a machine belonging to archiving company Graphic Data and sold “inappropriately to a third party” had information on credit card applications from some RBS customers and data from other banks. The computer contained account numbers, passwords, mobile telephone numbers and signatures.