EDS workers had "p0rn piracy business on the side"

The workers hired by EDS were not only using the Bank's nice thick pipe to download porn, they were, allegedly, burning it to CD and then flogging it in brown paper bags to punters in pubs.

According to company insiders, the thrusting IT staff hired by EDS were so bored and underpaid that becoming paid peddlers of pirated porn was the only avenue open to them.

But the lucrative perking up of their pay-packets in the smut trade didn't last. EDS management backed by sheriffs, it's alleged, bust into the office on Monday and told staff to "move away from their desks". They then took the servers and PCs away for a rigorous seeing too, according to Crikey. Staff are being subjected to discipline.

That could have been an end of it, perhaps a few discrete sackings and maybe even the Commonwealth Bank might not have found out.Unfortunately the bank is being closely watched by Crikey who are interested in its cost cutting antics.

When one of its contacts told them of the raid they gave the press officers at CBA a ring and asked them what was happening.

The Bank said it had nothing to do with them as it was a matter of misconduct being investigated by EDS. No CBA bank kit was being subverted for the use of the evil pornsters, the bank said.

Crikey pointed out that there couldn't be any CBA kit involved because it was all owned by EDS or the other outsourcer at the bank TCNZA.

EDS admitted that it was investigating alleged misconduct by its staff on Commonwealth Bank premises. Apparently the kit used by the IT staff for their porn piracy ring didn't belong to EDS either but had been decommissioned.

If that was the case the question remains why EDS shut down a large amount the computers it ran, including the internet banking site which appeared to be down on Monday morning.

The whole story can be found here, with a followup at the Australian web site, here. µ