Wired News: BlackBerry Reveals Bank’s Secrets: Never sell anything…
“The eBay ad read ‘BlackBerry RIM sold AS IS!’ So Eugene Sacks (not his real name), a Seattle computer consultant who always wanted one of the pager-size devices to check his e-mail, sent in a bid. For just $15.50, he bought the wireless device with 4 MB of memory.The BlackBerry didn’t come with a cable, synching station, software or a manual. But it did come with something even more valuable: a trove of corporate data.”
'Error' sends bank files to eBay: A guy buys some used Netfinity servers from the Bank of Montreal and begins to re-sell them on eBay. Just after he posts them, he realizes the hard drives aren't empty... "Information in one of the computers included the names, addresses and phone numbers…