Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay

Walpurgiss tips a BBC News story about a man in Oxford who paid $140 for a computer on eBay, and was shocked to find on it bank records of several million customers of the Royal Bank of Scotland, its subsidiary Natwest, and one other bank. "Mr. Chapman said anyone with a basic knowledge of computer software would have been able to find the data fairly simply. 'The information was in back-up CDs and in ISO files so it would have been possibly quite easy to find...,' he said."

I guess RBS stands for...

[volxdragon]

...Really Bad Security instead of Royal Bank of Scotland.

paid $140 for a computer on eBay

[flaming error]

Somebody should have set a much higher reserve price.

Re:Honesty

[cayenne8]

Hell, even better, why doesn't he turn around and resell the stuff on eBay?

I'm sure he could raise a pretty penny for all that info.....

Bugger....

[s0litaire]

I was just going to pick up a cheep 1U server for a Mod Project! Now i've no chance! Everyone will be buying up every server hoping for Disks full of Banking details now!! :(:(

Re:paid $140 for a computer on eBay

[smoker2]

£77 is how much it cost including ebay fees and paypal !

Re:paid $140 for a computer on eBay

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, so he paid 280gbp for this after all?!

Re:Honesty

[Dekortage]

Man: "Look, I found eight million customer records on here!"

Bank tech: "That's weird, we always stored ten million records in those databases..."

Man: "Huh, no idea what happened to those other two million." (hides batch of CDs) "I can't believe you guys sold 8 million customer records on eBay!"

Re:outbid

[lz2pt]

Ach, don't worry..
In a couple of weeks, as the economy slips further into the blessed state of Titzup, you'll be able to purchase the bank itself on Ebay c/w whatever assets the FatCats have left it with for a fraction of what he paid for this server alone..

Re:Sometimes its better to just shut up

[smashin234]

The CIA is already on their way, your tarring and feathering shall commence very soon. It took them only 2 more seconds to find you since you posted as AC.

Put that tin foil hat on ASAP

Re:Honesty

[The Great Pretender]

Man: "Look, I found eight million customer records on here!"

Bank tech: "That's weird, we always stored 7 million records in those databases..."

Bank tech2: "Funny I thought it was 12 million..."

Bank tech3: "What are records?"

Bank tech4: "Hey, didn't I just decommission that laptop using that online eBay-thingy service?"

Re:If he's REALLY Lucky, he could die conveniently

[dintech]

Yes and it's still being covered up today. That's why we've modded you -1. :)