NJ: Bank cannot find six backup tapes

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080507-9999-1b7saic.html

More than 1,300 SAIC stockholders are at risk of identity theft after a 
box of magnetic backup tapes went missing in New Jersey earlier this year.

The tapes owned by Bank of New York Mellon, which acts as 
stock transfer agent for SAIC, contained names, addresses, Social Security 
numbers, stock account information, transaction activity and possibly bank 
account numbers for 1,376 current or former shareholders, said the San 
Diego company also known as Science Applications International Corp.

Mellon said yesterday that it has no evidence that the information has 
been misused. The bank said the tapes have not been found more than two 
months after they were lost.

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