[privacy] Chase Card Services Dumps Customer Records in Landfill

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via TechWorld (UK).

[snip]

In an amazing display of incompetence, Chase Card Services has dumped
tapes containing millions of customers' details in a landfill site.

The company will now have to tell 2.6 million current and former credit
card customers of Circuit City that tapes containing their details were
tossed out when they were mistaken for rubbish. Chase is apparently
working with both local and national authorities to find out what
happened but thinks they were in a locked box which was crushed and
dumped in the landfill hole.

There is no evidence that the tapes or their contents have been
accessed or misused, the company said. And CEO Rich Srednicki issued a
statement promising that: "The privacy of our customers' personal
information is of utmost importance to us, and we take the
responsibility to safeguard this information very seriously."
Interpretations for what "very seriously" means are open to discussion.

[snip]

More:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=6820

- ferg


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