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Sometimes when you buy some used things on eBay you may find an extra something or other that you weren’t initially expecting. Well that’s exactly what happened to an IT Manager who paid £35 for a second hand NAS box. Note for non-techie people NAS according to wikipedia is a Network attaches storage device. Basically it’s a very very large hard drive(s) where people at a corporation or business can store their files.

He discovered that he had bank information on over a million people.

Unbeknown to Chapman, the machine contained personal bank account and credit card information on over one million American Express, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and NatWest customers.

It is a good thing that this was an honest, and upright IT manager. If someone had purchased those same hard drives and they weren’t upright citizens they would have access to millions of people’s credit card and banking information. And who knows what kind of nefarious things they would do.

This is a great reminder for folks to make sure that your personal information is secure as well as checking on the security of your own information because sometimes the banks that we “trust” automatically may not be taking care of our personal information as much as we’d like.