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[privacy] UK: Individual Banking Data Details Being Sold in Nigeria
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:14:30 GMT
While this is not really new, it _does_ reiterate the issue of securely destroying your old computer information before discarding it. :-) Via The BBC. [snip] Bank account details belonging to thousands of Britons are being sold in West Africa for less than £20 each, the BBC's Real Story programme has found. It discovered that fraudsters in Nigeria were able to find internet banking data stored on recycled PCs sent from the UK to Africa. [snip] More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4790293.stm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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