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KB Home warns of ID theft risk
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:34:37 -0500 (EST)
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/16485189.htm Thousands of KB Home customers are being warned of the risk of identity theft after one of the home builder's computers was stolen from a Charleston sales office. The company sent letters to 2,700 people Friday advising them to put a fraud alert on their credit reports and to monitor their credit for the next couple of years. ... The stolen computer likely had names, addresses and Social Security numbers only of people who had visited the sales office for Foxbank Plantation, a new home community in Berkeley County near Charleston, said Jeff Meyer, division president for KB Home South Carolina. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 144 million compromised records in 536 incidents over 7 years.
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