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Customers' Bank details sold on Ebay!!
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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.stmHe 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.Conjugating the verb 'to be":
-o I am humble -o You are attention seeking -o She is Nadine Dorries0 -
They never heard of Ultrium tapes like?Paul_Herring wrote: »They were ISO images of backups. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7581540.stm
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.0
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