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Information including bank account numbers, phone numbers, mothers' maiden names and signatures of one million customers of American Express, NatWest and the Royal Bank of Scotland were reportedly found on the computer.

The buyer, Andrew Chapman, an IT manager from Oxford, found the information on the computer's hard drive, the Independent newspaper reported.

It had belonged to data processing company Mail Source which is part of Graphic Data, a company that holds financial information for organisations, and was used at the firm's archive centre in Shoeburyness, Essex.

A Mail Source spokeswoman said the employee who sold the computer had made an "honest mistake".

She said the company was investigating, but stressed that the sale had been an "isolated incident".

She said: "The computer was removed from our secure storage facility in Essex and sold on eBay.

"We know which employee took the server and sold it, but we believe it was an honest mistake and it was not intentional to sell it without the server being cleared.

"We want to stress that this is an isolated incident and we are investigating how the server was removed and sold. The security we have in place is what we are known for. This is a very unfortunate incident and we are taking measures to ensure it will never happen again."

Jenny Thomas, a spokeswoman for eBay, said that an item such as this should never have been sold on eBay and that the company is working with Graphic Data to investigate the sale.