"Our organisation believes strongly in protecting its customers from fraud, for this reason we require certain information from you. Please upload your entire personal and financial history to our super safe (honest guv) server on which it will be stored for the rest of eternity."
* not even a hint of irony detected.
What is even potentially more nefarious on this is with the US Government, for example, they don't even house their own servers anymore. Most data is stored with third-party vendors that have FedRAMP certification.
Yeah, government organisations just generally seem to be the worst offenders on this kind of stuff! And the rest is mostly on behalf of the government anyway.
