Computer sold on eBay held personal, financial info on 1 million customers
Personal and financial information belonging to at least 1 million bank and credit card customers has been sold on eBay for a lousy $65.
Here’s how it happened: A former employee of Mail Source—a subsidiary of Graphic Data—took a computer from a secure area, and sold it on eBay without first wiping the hard drive clean.
Graphic Data is a data processing company that stores digital images of other companies’ documents.
On the computer was very sensitive personal and financial information of clients from American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest. Applications for credit, existing account data and balance transfer applications were on the computer.
The information included names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, credit card and bank account numbers, passwords, income information, mothers’ maiden names and signatures.
The computer was bought by a very surprised, and, thankfully, very honest IT manager.
Graphic Data’s representatives say they’re sure this was an honest mistake and a one-time incident.
It might have been an honest mistake, but it might not be an isolated incident: Since this massive data breach came to light this week, it has been discovered that a second computer belonging to Graphic Data has gone missing.
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