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130 Million…

… Credit card numbers that is. That’s what one person has been charged with stealing from several different companies. If convicted he could end up with 25 years in prison and £300,000 fine – which is serious stuff. However, what about those who have had their credit cards stolen… if all of them spent an hour changing their accounts then this equated to nearly 15,000 years of wasted time. As for the companies who lost the data – well they shouldn’t have (and there’s a great book to help them), but even so, shouldn’t they also be considered for compensation?

Guy Bunker

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