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[privacy] UK: C&W Employee Stole 100,000 Users' Details
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:46:30 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Contractor UK (props, Pogo Was Right). [snip] A Cable & Wireless employee was yesterday identified to Contractor UK as having stolen the personal details of 100,000 broadband customers who used the popular Bulldog service. Having teamed up with Bulldogs owner, Pipex, C&W said it is pursuing the worker with an injunction to stop any further use of the data, which includes users credit card details. But in a statement, C&W said there is currently no evidence that the worker, who has now been sacked by the company, has used any of the credit card numbers for identity fraud. The employee has been identified as Seemab Zafar, The Mail on Sunday reported. Her ex-employer is chasing her through the High Court for more than £300,000 in damages, after she stole a laptop loaded with the customer data. [snip] More: http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003412.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFGzHZwq1pz9mNUZTMRAjpGAJ9U4483vZX6WEI9iv41HoAX5hrqAQCeMhZA jdsYEtcVDeHahcOu9huJoMM= =QAMM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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