Bank details sold on ebay for £35

Yes, you’ve read that right. Mail Source, a company which stores customer data for banks, has sold a server on ebay for £35 with Natwest and Royal Bank of Scotland data on it amongst others.

The decommissioned server was stored in a secure room, but for some reason that server ended up on eBay, and sold for £35.

Does anyone in the real world know anything about Computer Security!? Why should we give our data to people who seem to know nothing about basic data security? It was so lucky that a good guy ended up with the servers rather than a less honest person.

Sigh.

Source: Google News

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