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Customers' Bank details sold on Ebay!!

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  • Paul_Herring
    Paul_Herring Posts: 7,484 Forumite
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    PROLIANT wrote: »
    I fail to see why they are flapping over a PC/Dumb terminal as banks use UNIX/VMS mainframes or SQL/ORACLE database servers for data storage, unless it was a server with a full database on it I doubt very much any data will be retrieved from it. ;)

    They were ISO images of backups. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7581540.stm
    He said: "I was appalled when I found the bank account information. That sort of thing shouldn't have been listed on there."

    Mr Chapman said anyone with a basic knowledge of computer software would have been able to find the data fairly simply.

    "The information was in back-up CDs and in ISO files so it would have been possibly quite easy to find if you know something about computers," he said.
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  • PROLIANT
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    Paul_Herring wrote: »
    They were ISO images of backups. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7581540.stm
    They never heard of Ultrium tapes like? :confused:
    Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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