Identity Crisis
Lots of banks aren't doing their job properly:
Several leading banks may be facing unlimited fines over allegations that they dumped confidential customer account details in bin bags on streets...
Mr Thomas said among the findings in bin bags were bank statements, loan applications which had been turned down and paying-in slips.
It comes after BBC investigators found customer names, addresses and account details when rifling through discarded rubbish.
Just rifling through discarded rubbish, they were. As you do.
This is pretty dreadful. Made even worse by that fact that one of the banks in question is my bank!
In response to all this, Yahoo has given us some guidelines on how to protect identity fraud. Now we ought to do that stuff, but there seems precious little point if your bank is just going to take your details and just dump them on the street.
Cory
