Wonder if They Sell Private Records on eBay…
Wonder no more, as the answer is no public: they do! You can buy hardware containing private details of strangers on eBay! Just a short while ago an IT manager paid 35 pounds on a computer hard disk containing one million sets of bank details.
The said hardware piece contained details of customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland, as reported by The Register. And Andrew Chapman, the guy who paid the money, would have had everything he needed for identity thefts: names, addresses, sort codes, account numbers, credit card numbers, mobile phone numbers, mothers’ maiden names and scans of signatures.
The second hand computer the hard drive belonged to was the property of Graphic Data. The Archiving firm seems to be missing a second computer with the same type of information.
