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Lost British laptop had data on millions
From: Chris Walsh <chris () cwalsh org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:09:21 -0600
I need somebody to translate this British into American for me, but it looks like a laptop with millions of account numbers and names just got stolen in the UK. <snip> THE Financial Services Authority is investigating an extraordinary lapse of security at Nationwide building society after a laptop computer containing sensitive customer account information was stolen in a burglary at an employee’s home. Nationwide confirmed the computer held customer information, but insisted that this did not include “pin numbers, passwords, or information about financial transactions”. But banking sources said last night that some reports circulating in the industry have suggested information on several million accounts may have been stored on the machine, whose user was on call. Nationwide declined to give further details, saying it was acting on the advice of the police. </snip> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-2449656,00.html P.S. Spam issue solved. W00t! _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 141 million compromised records in 469 incidents over 6 years.
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