PC Sold on eBay Contained UK Taxpayer Data

UK police made an arrest over the sale of a computer that contained personal details of thousands of UK taxpayers. The PC was sold on eBay for the equivalent of only $14 to a Scottish computer expert. Hm, that price would probably throw a few warning flags for me but maybe I’m just too careful.

According to the Daily Mail, the computer was sold on eBay to a Scottish computer expert for just £6.99 (US$14). The expert then used data recovery equipment to discover around 35,000 files, including council tax bills, photographs of council staff and internal memos.

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