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... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Wed, Aug 27 2008
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| 27 Aug 08 |
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Bank Details of 1 Million Customers Sold on eBay » digg Personal details of more than 1 million customers of Royal Bank of Scotland, American Express and NatWest are found on a computer sold on auction site eBay. |
| 28 Aug 08 |
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Data watchdogs did not want to see eBay bank server » the register (uk) Watching the watchmen The man who paid £35 for a server stuffed full of Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest customer details has been left less than impressed with the reaction of UK data regulators.… |
| 26 Aug 08 |
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Million bank details sold on eBay » the register (uk) And a few more gone AWOL A computer hard disc containing one million sets of bank details was bought on eBay for just £35.… |
| 20 May 08 |
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Royal Bank of Scotland takes three weeks to squash nasty Worldpay bug » the register (uk) Amateur security sleuth spurned It's taken three weeks, but Royal Bank of Scotland has closed a glaring vulnerability that could have allowed miscreants to create convincing spoof pages that siphoned customers' login credentials.… |
| 10 Oct 08 |
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World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" » slashdot JagsLive sends in a Fox News report on large-scale and possibly ongoing security breaches at the World Bank. "The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has... |
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