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.”
PS: related joke.
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.”