Australian Police Blunder Exposes Banking Records of 3,500
Natalie O'Brien and Michael McKinnon write on Australian IT:
The banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and an international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by Australia's peak internet crime-fighting agency.More here.
The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and account numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on Russian mafia "phishing" scams was misplaced by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in April last year.
Inquiries by The Australian have revealed a police officer with the AHTCC lost a memory stick - containing the dossier, between Sydney and London.
The blunder has embarrassed the AHTCC, the law enforcement agency charged with investigating the burgeoning online crime wave in Australia.
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