Your mobile secrets uncovered
Three years ago, Graham Clements, the European managing director of the Japanese packaging multinational Ishida's British subsidiary, decided to get rid of his BlackBerry and passed it on to his IT department for recycling.
In September, that BlackBerry was one of the top items on the agenda at the first board meeting that Clements had called since his return from holiday because it, and the data on it, had come back to haunt him.
Instead of being recycled, the BlackBerry, like millions of other mobile devices every year, had been passed on to a company to be sold. On Clements's device were business plans, details of customer relationships, information on the structure of the company, details of his bank accounts and details about his children.
