Toys 'R' Us have admitted selling a PC to a customer that contained personal data from a previous owner.
Original owner John Green returned the PC to Toys 'R' Us as it kept crashing. Toys 'R' Us then repaired the machine and put it back up for sale.
The new owner of the PC in question was quite shocked, as you would imagine, to find personal data relating to Mr Green, including credit card and address information, along with pictures of Mr Green's family.
A spokes person for Toys 'R' Us said,
""It was an unfortunate incident. When we take PCs back we do clean the hard drive to get rid of data, so we can resell at a reduced price, but this one seems to have been missed. Because of the problems we will not be reselling this PC again."
Toys 'R' Us are just another firm to have been caught passing on equipment with previous customer information on it.
Mastercare, the firm that repairs electrical equipment for Dixons and PC World, have also been guilty of a similar incident.
Back in June this year, Mastercare upgraded a customers PC by adding a second hard disk drive. The drive was later found to have personal information relating to its previous owner.
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