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UK: Websites Sell Secret Bank Data and PINs

Alexi Mostrous and Dominic Kennedy write in The Times Online:

Security breaches that are allowing the financial details of tens of thousands of Britons to be sold on the internet are to be investigated by the country’s information watchdog.

Without paying a single penny, The Times downloaded banking information belonging to 32 people, including a High Court deputy judge and a managing director. The private account numbers, PINs and security codes were offered as tasters by illegal hacking sites in the hope that purchases would follow.

Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, will begin an investigation into the security breach today and Scotland Yard is also investigating.

posted by Fergie @ 12/02/2007 04:41:00 PM