Customers' bank details sold on eBay
A BRITISH data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of a million bank customers. The computer was bought on the online auction site for $75 by Andrew Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, in central England, who found the information on the computer's hard drive.
It included bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and signatures of one million customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the Independent newspaper reported.
It had belonged to data processing company Mail Source which is part of Graphic Data, a company that holds financial information for banks and other organisations. A spokeswoman for Mail Source said the employee who sold the computer had made an "honest mistake" but insisted it had been an "isolated incident".
