I wonder if they bought one of these drives ...
http://212.100.234.54/content/55/28720.html
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> Hello ebay..
>
> ><http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274>http
> <http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274>://ww
w.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274
> >
> >
> >Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, graduate students at the
> Massachusetts
> >Institute of Technology, analysed 158 second hand hard
> drives bought over
> >the internet between November 2000 and August 2002. They
> were able to
> >recover over 6000 credit card numbers, as well as email messages and
> >pornographic images.
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >One drive had previously been used in an ATM cash machine
> and contained
> >2868 different numbers, as well as account and transaction
> information.
>
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