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Data Lost on 650,000 Credit Card Holders
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:31:20 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via SFGate.com (AP). [snip] Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing. GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people. The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing last October. It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc., a data storage company, and was never checked out but can't be found either, said Richard C. Jones, a spokesman for GE Money, part of General Electric Capital Corp. Jones said there was "no indication of theft or anything of that sort," and no evidence of fraudulent activity on the accounts involved. [snip] More: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/17/financial/f1742 00S38.DTL - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHkA90q1pz9mNUZTMRAhspAJ44oAZeEEIPj2oGNeOGT1oLYVJpiACeKFd0 716L/OuG4Usq9PCB4SmOD2o= =pHQB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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