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A real dumpster dive: Bank tosses personal data, checks, laptops

Security industry analyst Steve Hunt was in and out of the dumpster in three minutes. Hunt obtained wire transfer information of transactions between US banks and banks in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Portugal. Hunt also found a personal financial statement of an individual he described as “very wealthy” Hunt’s experiment even yielded a whole, intact PC with a tag on the back that says “Property of [another financial institution]” Hunt: “There are so many physical security aspects to data protection it ought to never be considered merely an IT security issue””]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2123810/identity-theft-prevention-a-real-dumpster-dive-bank-tosses-personal-data-checks-laptops.html

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