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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Database administrator hustles info to marketeers Fidelity National Information Services, the major US financial processing company, said today a senior level database administrator at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing bank account and credit card information as well as other personal information.â¦
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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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Bad timing for J.C. Penney CEO Personal information belonging to more than 650,000 US customers of J.C. Penney and other retailers is at risk after the company hired to safeguard the data lost a backup tape.â¦
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A US credit card processing firm has been hit by intermittend and large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services.
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Here we go again. The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians -- both living and deceased -- is missing and may have been stolen. The information had been stored on a portable hard drive that was...
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ID theft milestone reached The total number of US customer records compromised as a result of security blunders has hit the 100m milestone.â¦
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Credit cards issuers may face penalty from the regulators as credit cards solicitation is not as reliable as they are said. Consumers sometimes are not given the whole information about the possibly imposed
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A credit union in Massachusetts has sent TJX an invoice for $590,000 to cover the monetary costs and reputational damage that the financial institution says it incurred as a result of the data breach disclosed by the retailer in January.
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Britain's top transport official said Monday that a disk drive containing personal information on three million driving test candidates has been lost in the United States  -  the latest in a series of government blunders over data
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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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SAN FRANCISCO Thousands of Wells Fargo and Company 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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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 loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007, and the trend isnât expected to turn around anytime soon.
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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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The Department of Veterans Affairs has disclosed that information on more than half a million individuals and about 1.3 million non-VA physicians, both living and dead, is missing or might have been stolen. The information was stored on a portable hard drive that was being used by a VA employee at the department's facility in Birmingham, Ala.
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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.