The Leicestershire police in the U.K made an arrest over a sale on eBay that featured a computer full of personal information of thousands of council taxpayers. There is an ongoing investigation following the appearance of names and addresses, bank account numbers and sort codes of people in the Charnwood Borough Council region of Leicestershire on a computer hard drive which was sold on eBay. A Scottish computer expert bought the computer for just £6.99 (US$14). He then used a data recovery equipment to restore 35,000 files, including council tax bills, photographs of council staff and internal memos. Conversations about householders' divorces and family bereavements were also recovered. An auction on eBay featuring the computer that contains information of one million bank customers for £35 prompted the investigation. A Charnwood Borough Council spokesperson said the breach is being dealt with the highest regard and swift response.
