By Guy Basnett and Pete Warren
THOUSANDS of office photocopiers containing secret or personal information are being unwittingly flogged off to potential crooks, we can reveal.
Future intelligence and the News of the World expose how Britain’s businesses are carelessly throwing away YOUR personal and financial information that has been left stored on used office equipment.
Read more ...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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