From: Greg Vickers (g.vickersqut.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2008 - 18:27:51 CDT

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Forty four files on customers of the mortgage lender Aussie Home Loans
was found in a recycle bin in a public corridor after an office
relocation. Full text on the ABC 7.30 report is here:
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2393401.htm and a summary can
be found here: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24507833-29277,00.html

I saw the story on the ABC 7.30 report and the files contained birth
certificates, name changes, bank statements, full credit history, etc
etc. They spoke to a Detective Superintendent from the Queensland
Police who said that the files were probably worth $1 million in cash.

I think that the recycling bins were left inside the locked office and a
cleaner moved the bins out into the public corridor, but that's just my
opinion.

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Greg Vickers
Phone: +61 7 3138 6902
IT Security Engineer & Project Manager
Queensland University of Technology, CRICOS No. 00213J
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