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doc_strangeYet another financial manages to have "go missing" a tape-set full of "Social Security numbers, names, account history and loan information about retail customers, and former customers" -- this time from a division of Citi; the tapes were bound for Experian. They didn't make it.
Read about it on CNN.
A number of other financials have also reported missing tapes. Makes you wonder whether these are "coincidental" losses. Two possibilities: things have been sloppy all along and new audit rules are finding out; and/or there's a targeted effort to nail [backup] copies of this financial data.
Mind, I think the REAL issue is that this petty data is all it takes to compromise someone's financial LIFE... but that's a rant for another day.
Read about it on CNN.
A number of other financials have also reported missing tapes. Makes you wonder whether these are "coincidental" losses. Two possibilities: things have been sloppy all along and new audit rules are finding out; and/or there's a targeted effort to nail [backup] copies of this financial data.
Mind, I think the REAL issue is that this petty data is all it takes to compromise someone's financial LIFE... but that's a rant for another day.
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Date: 2005-06-07 02:43 am (UTC)