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I doubt he would be able to legally distribute the list.


Perhaps, but unless he signed an NDA or something it's actually pretty hard for the bank. US copyright law gives an implicit license to the recipient - and data cannot be copyrighted so reformatting would actually make that difficult. All, of course, modulo the bank's success in making it expense enough to get their way without a decisive legal position.


Plus it wouldn't be fair to the 1300 bank customers who don't know how crappy their bank really is - and how insecure their personal information is.


Err.. Offtopic: I can't see how many points the parent comment has. That's weird. I see the uparrow, followed by "by mikeyur 8 hours ago", but the "N points" part is missing.





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