2008 — Compass Bank: A former employee stole a hardrive containing 1m…

2008 1.0M records affected

Technical writeup

Mar 2008. A former employee stole a hardrive containing 1m account details from the bank between May & July 2007, then used it to defraud cutomers of nearly $32,000.

Root cause

Inside job

References

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9072198/Programmer_who_stole_drive_containing_1_million_bank_records_gets_42_months