Re: Mortgage.com Notifies Customers of Data Privacy Breach

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:02:27 EST, Jeff Kell said:
>
>  
>
> > A follow-up dated Dec 22 2005 "I am happy to tell you that this tape has
> > been found in the same DHL facility from which it was last tracked.  DHL
> > told us that the package was found without the original airbill".
> >    
>
> Now for the $64 question: If this had been evidence in a criminal trial,
> it would be tossed because the chain of custody was busticated.
>
> Who has warm and fuzzies that the tape was *really* behind that table the
> whole time, and that nobody could possibly have snagged it, extracted the
> data, and then returned it? ;)
>  
Not me.  They offered a year of credit monitoring service free.  I took 
them up on it :-)

Didn't mean to imply it wasn't a problem, but rather a new twist -- 
haven't heard of anyone trying the "ohh, nevermind" false alarm scenario 
before.

Jeff
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