Better not publish your bank account details
Jeremy Clarkson, the BBC Top Gear presenter, is regretting mocking the fuss made about the British government losing CDs with millions of sets of personal data on them. He published an article in the Sunday Times which included his bank account details, claiming that concerns about identity theft were exaggerated. Someone promptly transferred £500 from his account to British Diabetic Association. Because of the Data Protection Act, Clarkson has no idea who was responsible for the transfer.
Clarkson’s revised opinion about the lost CDs:
“Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy.”