Technology.Guardian.co.uk – Peter Warren
Identity thieves are gleaning personal information from scrapped computers. Peter Warren reports on just how insecure our sensitive data really is
Bill Kerridge is a North Shields publican who runs an award-winning pub in the Tyneside Town and whose daughter is a talented gymnast. Normally, Kerridge would be happy for the readers of a national newspaper to know those details, only he is not because along with a wealth of other information relating to his family, it was recovered from a computer hard drive bought off the internet via eBay that the Kerridges knew nothing about.