"Being the concerned IT citizen that I am, I looked up the home phone number of the other bank's manager of DP operations and gave him a call to let him know what they had done.

"I told him that I'd take care of wiping out their data this time and warned that they probably ought to be a little more careful in the future.

"I don't imagine that I made his Sunday very happy -- but I'll bet that someone else had a very bad Monday."

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