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Australia: Cop bungle exposes bank files
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:09:49 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19589797-29277,00.html By Natalie O'Brien and Michael McKinnon June 26, 2006 The banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and an international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by Australia's peak internet crime-fighting agency. The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and account numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on Russian mafia "phishing" scams was misplaced by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in April last year. Inquiries by The Australian have revealed a police officer with the AHTCC lost a memory stick - a tiny disc-like device for storing information - containing the dossier, between Sydney and London. The blunder has embarrassed the AHTCC, the law enforcement agency charged with investigating the burgeoning online crime wave in Australia. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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