Over a Million Confidential Files Breached on eBay

eBay is known for the variety of merchandise that it processes. The internet auction site wants to be among the first places one considers for merchandise. eBay, though, may not want to be known as the place where identity theft information can be found:

“…The laptop computer, which was sold for just under $70 to British IT manager Andrew Chapman, contained customers’ credit card applications, account details, signatures, cellphone numbers and mothers’ maiden names.

The Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest Bank confirmed their customers’ details were included in the computer.”

link: Laptop with bank details of over a million Britons sold on eBay

It is discouraging to think that, with all the publicity and cautions about identity theft, that two major financial institutions would have security operations that would allow over million confidential, sensitive customer files go astray. How can a customer have any trust in the banking institutions with such security blunders?

Catherine Forsythe