NationWide Laptop Stolen.

[benjo plz.]

Title says most of the story, a laptop has been stolen from the building society, containing details on all of their customers (no pins or passwords), but it's likely to cause a lot of identity theft through phone calls, phising etc.

 

[ElRazur]

How come all the customers details are on one lap top? source?

 

[pinkegobox]

impressive hdd on that laptop!

 

[benjo plz.]

Was on the news this morning - here's the Guardians take on it.

 

[ElRazur]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/moneybox/6160054.stm

Thanks god i dont bank with them.....11 million people is a lot man.

 

[Biohazard]

How can they act so calously, when dealing with peoples finiancial dealings? Then fair to inform them for 1/4 of a year, and even then only furnish them with sparse information.

Tell you something, I am glad I am not a customer of theirs.....

 

[Almeda]

There is no way in hell a laptop could store all the details of 7 million odd customers. It would be LAN accessed to achive that. Just another scare story.

All the theif can probably do with it is quote himself for a personal loan and play solitaire assuming he could even access it as they use GnPGP and PGP for encryption at 2048 bytes.

We have numerous cases at work where people get their laptops stolen from cars and these guys work for the MOD!!! Never hear about that on t'news

 

[benjo plz.]

We have numerous cases at work where people get their laptops stolen from cars and these guys work for the MOD!!! Never hear about that on t'news

I doubt they'd be using pgp, it's too weak tbh. Actually there have been at least two cases of MoD laptops being stole (ok they've been over a few years) but we do hear about them.

 

[Moredhel]

If it's just names and account numbers, for 11 million customers I couldn't imagine it being more than 11gb of data, 1kb for every entry give or take.

 

[Biohazard]

If it's just names and account numbers, for 11 million customers I couldn't imagine it being more than 11gb of data, 1kb for every entry give or take.

Yes..

I think some people are going a little OTT..

We have spreadsheets on laptops at work with similar volumes of data..

It isn't that unknown you know

 

[Pez]

Nothing he could do, may have a few bits of work that the employee will have been working with, but all customer details are held on network accessed mainframes.

Scaremongers.

 

[Biohazard]

Nothing he could do, may have a few bits of work that the employee will have been working with, but all customer details are held on network accessed mainframes.

Scaremongers.

Maybe their mainframe was the laptop!

 

[Spinal2k2]

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The building society is writing to all of its 11 million customers about the importance of security.[/font]

lol- i think its them who need to understand the importance of security

 

[Pez]

lol- i think its them who need to understand the importance of security

They were robbed, it wasnt as if they just left it by an open window or on a bus

 

[basmic]

Oh great - one of my bank accounts is with Nationwide, too.

 

[da_mic_1530]

Oh great - one of my bank accounts is with Nationwide, too.

 

[Maz]

I dont think its anything to worry about really.

 

[Energize]

They were robbed, it wasnt as if they just left it by an open window or on a bus

You wouldn't expect personal details for thousands of customers to be on a laptop completley unencrypted.

 

[cheets64]

No doubt they will send letters out saying they have lost your details then charge you £25 for the letter

 

[Roalith]

Nothing compared to the numbers of unshredded letters containing names, accounts numbers, sort codes and addresses left in black bin bags outside high street banks every night, tbh.