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Chrysler Canadian Lease Customers data lost
From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:07:28 -0500
From the Windstor Star http://tinyurl.com/6j4n2q Chrysler Financial customer data lost Dave Hall Windsor Star Wednesday, April 23, 2008 A Windsor man is upset there was a six-week delay in notifying Chrysler Financial's Canadian lease customers about a lost data tape containing their personal information. Chris Jovanovic, who leases a car from Chrysler, said the company was notified by United Parcel Service about the lost tape on March 12, but a letter from Chrysler Financial dated March 27 didn't arrive in his mailbox until Monday. "It's the time frame of notification that's got me upset, because if the tape did fall into the wrong hands, they've had six weeks to access the information and do something with it," said Jovanovic. In a letter to customers dated March 27, Chrysler Financial general counsel Brian Chillman said that the company was notified by UPS on March 12 that a data tape sent by Chrysler Financial to a third-party credit reporting agency had been destroyed or lost in transit and never arrived at the agency. "The data tape cannot be easily accessed and requires specialized software and equipment to read but it did contain some personal information that Chrysler Financial had obtained from you," said Chillman in his letter. Despite it being not readily accessible, Chillman said "as a precautionary measure, we are alerting you to this recent incident so that you may be watchful of any possible misuse of your personal information by an unauthorized recipient." This information includes names, addresses and social insurance numbers. The lost information affects Chrysler Financial lease customers across Canada. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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