[privacy] UK: Individual Banking Data Details Being Sold in Nigeria

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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


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