Receiving Everyone's Financial Statements

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February 08, 2007
Bank institutions around the world - stay tuned for wannabe identity thieves requesting their statements while hoping you'll forward them everyone else's ones, in between. Smells like an over performing intern to me :

"An Aberdeen woman who asked for her bank statement was sent details of 75,000 other customers. Stephanie McLaughlan, 22, was sent the financial details by Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS). She received five packages each containing 500 sheets of 30 customers' names, sort codes and account details. HBOS apologised and said it was carrying out an investigation. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it would probe the "negligence."

Obviously, you can too play the U.S Department of Treasury requesting financial information from the SWIFT, but in this case - unintentionally.

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