[Dataloss] Australia: Cop bungle exposes bank files

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19589797-29277,00.html

By Natalie O'Brien and Michael McKinnon
June 26, 2006

The banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and an 
international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by Australia's 
peak internet crime-fighting agency.

The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and account 
numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on Russian mafia 
"phishing" scams was misplaced by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in 
April last year.

Inquiries by The Australian have revealed a police officer with the AHTCC 
lost a memory stick - a tiny disc-like device for storing information - 
containing the dossier, between Sydney and London.

The blunder has embarrassed the AHTCC, the law enforcement agency charged 
with investigating the burgeoning online crime wave in Australia.

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