Monday, 11. October 2004
Topic: COMPUTER - on October 11, 2004 at 8:44:00 AM CEST
Dutch Prosecutor Dumps PC Without Erasing Hard Drive
Joost Tonino, a public prosecutor in the Netherlands, decided to trash his computer because the operating system would not activate. He figured a virus was causing this problem. A cab driver found the PC and gave it to a crime reporter.
The reporter discovered the prosecutor's credit card number, social security number, tax information, and his email address. Tonino is lucky a thief did not take his PC. Equally disturbing is the amount of legal information that was found on the PC.
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