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Your personal information still for sale on eBay

Submitted by MacRonin on September 25, 2008 - 9:06am
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CALL FOR ACTION INVESTIGATION: Your personal information for sale on eBay - Via PogoWasRIght - Privacy News Headlines:

... CALL FOR ACTION discovered the personal information you work hard to protect might be for sale on eBay. We simply typed in "used hard drives" on eBay and within minutes, we bought ten used hard drives. $50 bucks and a couple days later, the hard drives came in the mail.

We took the drives to a computer expert to see what was on them.

.... On one drive he found data for 200 financial transactions that appear to be from US Trust of New York, a company that manages money for wealthy clients.

The largest transaction he found involved just under $2 million dollars.

The records also contain what appears to be names, addresses, account numbers and Social Security numbers.

Another drive appears to come from the grocery store chain Giant of Maryland. It contains more than a thousand pharmacy prescriptions and 25 hundred suspected credit card numbers.

Two other drives we bought contain service calls from Sears. The data contained names, addresses and instructions, like how to get to customers' homes, where they kept spare keys, and more than 750 suspected credit card numbers.

Source - WINK News

(Read Original Article - Via PogoWasRIght - Privacy News Headlines.)

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