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HSBC Australia exposes sensitive customer data
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:14:02 -0400
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;582756140 More than 100 HSBC Australia customers had their banking details, names and home addresses, as well as other personal financial information exposed today in a serious security breach by staff. The extraordinary breach was exacerbated by the sheer volume of documents and sensitive nature of the information that was exposed. The documents, which were found on an early morning peak hour train in Sydney, left HSBC customers dangerously exposed as the paperwork listed customer names and addresses along with their banking details such as branch and account numbers. Computerworld sighted up to 50 letters of approval for mortgages which included property values, repayment information, even deposits with six digit cheques that had been photocopied. In addition to personal customer information there was training material that featured customer black lists. [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 158 million compromised records in 601 incidents over 7 years.
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