The personal records of school-children and the passwords and user names of top company executives and academics have been discovered in a survey into the destruction of computer data.
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Wednesday, 09 February 2000 05:22
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Future Intelligence’s Peter Warren finds ex-Beatle Paul McCartney’s bank details at an East London boot fair while demonstrating the threat from discarded data.
This investigation was published in the Daily Express and broadcast on Channel 4
By Peter Warren and Jonathan Calvert
An unwanted computer sold on from a bank contained 108 files relating to Sir Paul McCartney’s private cash dealings.
The second-hand machine, containing information on the movements of money in Sir Paul’s account, was discarded without the files being wiped clean.
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