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Major Bank Loses 12 Million Customers' Data in the Most Embarrassing Way Possible
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:03:26
Publish Date: 2018-05-04 16:30:25
Description: Just when you thought all data breaches amounted to hacker shenanigans, the largest bank in Australia has belatedly confirmed a different sort of breach story. BuzzFeed reports that the Commonwealth Bank lost 12 million customers’ data after magnetic tape backups containing their personal financial history from 2004 to 2014 went missing. It just lost them. They may have literally fallen off a truck. And the bank didn’t even bother telling its customers about the incident.
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