[privacy] Australian Police Blunder Exposes Banking Records of 3, 500

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Australian IT.

[snip]

The banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and
an international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by
Australia's peak internet crime-fighting agency.

The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and
account numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on
Russian mafia "phishing" scams was misplaced by the Australian High
Tech Crime Centre in April last year.

Inquiries by The Australian have revealed a police officer with the
AHTCC lost a memory stick - containing the dossier, between Sydney and
London.

The blunder has embarrassed the AHTCC, the law enforcement agency
charged with investigating the burgeoning online crime wave in Australia.

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More:
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,19588463%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

- ferg


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 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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