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Jeremy Clarkson ripped offSource: Macworld
| Quote: | BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost £500 after publishing his bank details in a British newspaper in a naive attempt to prove that the UK's largest ever data breach was a storm in a teacup.
In October last year two discs containing child benefit claims of some 25 million UK residents were lost in transit after being sent from the HM Revenue and Customs offices.
Clarkson insisted that little could be done with the stolen information and published his bank details in the Sun newspaper to prove that people should not be worried, the BBC reported:
"All you'll be able to do with them is put money into my account. Not take it out. Honestly, I've never known such a palaver about nothing," the Top Gear host wrote.
Unfortunately for Clarkson, a savvy reader used the details he provided to process a £500 direct debit transaction from his Barclays bank account to the charity Diabetes UK.
Clarkson was forced to admit that he was wrong and had been punished for his mistake, saying there was little chance of catching the person responsible.
"He probably thought 'what can you do with this personal information?' and he got screwed straight away because they can do a lot of things with this," said Andreas Baumhof, CTO of online fraud protection company TrustDefender.
"You might say 'this was just a dodgy bank that is not up to date with their security systems'. But that would be utterly wrong," Baumhof said.
"This was done with Barclays in the UK, and the level of security systems that Barclays has in place is actually fairly high."
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He does have a very big mouth sometimes doesn't he lol
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Marcucas
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That serves him right now i normally love his big mouth and his ability to tell people what he really thinks of them but in this case the punishment fitted the crime here.
At least the person who taught him a lesson made sure it went to a good cause.
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Flakey Sugar Butt
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It totally does serve him right! ha ha. I'm glad someone out there had the balls to give it a go, I wonder how many more people tried it?
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Diane
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^I read about this and he has held his hands up and said he was wrong, glad a charity benefited out of his stupidity. Have to say though I think the guy is great, I love his wit and humour!
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Super
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Well at least the money went to a good cause. Glad he admitted he was wrong. I dont think he will do that again.
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