Credit issuer says data lost for 650,000 customers
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A computer tape containing personal  data of 650,000 customers of about 230 retailers including J.C.  Penney Co  is missing, credit card issuer GE Money said  on Friday.
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Details on 11 million customers went awol The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined The Nationwide Building Society Â£980,000 for the loss of a laptop which contained "confidential customer data" on 11 million customers.â¦
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A state government intern in Ohio last week lost a backup device that contained personal data on more than 64,000 state workers and tens of thousands of other people.
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Online fantasy game site "Second Life" has suffered a security breach in which the data of 650,000 users may have been exposed, including real names, addresses and billing information.
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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Data laws blamed for communication failure after education prizes worth Â£12m go unclaimed
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A check-authorizing company said yesterday that credit, bank account, and other personal information on 2.3 million consumers had been stolen, but none of the data were used for identity theft or other financial fraud.
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The personal details of up to 600,000  people were lost when a Royal Navy officer's laptop was stolen  in the latest embarrassment to hit British Prime Minister  Gordon Brown.
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Internet bank Egg has cancelled the credit cards of around 160,000 customers who have a "higher than acceptable risk profile".
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Credit card issuer warns of weak spending and increasing delinquencies.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government suffered new embarrassment over missing data on Monday when it revealed one of its contractors had lost the details of 3 million learner drivers.
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Capital One Financial Corp , a  credit card issuer and banking company, posted a third quarter  net loss after taking more than $800 million of charges from  shuttering its GreenPoint Mortgage business.
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Thousands of Wells Fargo mortgage and student-loan customers may be at risk for identity theft after four computers were stolen last month from a vendor that prints loan statements.
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Three-quarters of incidents involving loss of sensitive data are caused by human error, according to researchers.
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More than three million customers of global banking giant HSBC have been left vulnerable while banking over the internet for more than two years because of a security flaw, a newspaper reported.
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The British government faced fresh embarrassment over losing data Monday after admitting that over three million learner drivers' records were mislaid by a contractor in the United States.
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Identity theft victims are also losing more money and getting less of it back, research shows.