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UK: Virgin Media loses CD containing 3000 customer bank details
From: rchick <rchicker () etiolated org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:31:32 -0400
http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18619 20 June 2008 Virgin Media - the entertainment and communications arm of Richard Branson's Virgin Group - has lost an unencrypted computer disc containing the bank account details of 3000 UK customers. Virgin Media discovered the CD - which also contained names and addresses of customers - was missing on 29 May. The breach affects customers that signed up to Virgin Media services in Carphone Warehouse stores from January this year. It is not known why the data was burned onto a CD - a move thought to be at odds with the firm's policy of using secure FTP transfers. [..] _______________________________________________ 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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