The Ballyfermot Blogger

What you didn’t hear about this, I’m not surprised, after all a laptop “lost or stolen” from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in April 2007 contained mostly Senior Citizens Information. For all we can tell the laptop was accidentally misplaced from the Auditor General Office? is there no security guards, cameras or sign in books? When was it discovered to be missing? We’re not told the information was even encrypted, this is a good indication that it wasn’t and anybody could see it.

Let me put it this way, stolen bank account details are worth £400 Sterling on the black market so in theory if these unlucky people had bank account information stored by the social welfare in their records then this information could be sold for an astounding €193,609,962 today, never mind what money that could be in the accounts to be withdrawn!

Full RTE News story here