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Man's 'pants' password is changed

A bank that not only refuses to allow customers to have passwords deemed unacceptable but, more worryingly, allows it's employees to view customer passwords and change them seemingly at a whim. Read about it on the BBC website here.

"Lloyds TSB stressed there was no security lapse in this case"

So, an unauthorised alteration to a customer password is not a security lapse?

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