Fidelity Employee Steals 2.3 Million Customer Records

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Fidelity Employee Steals 2.3 Million Customer Records

07-04-2007, 09:26 AM,

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Fidelity Employee Steals 2.3 Million Customer Records

Quote: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.

The data was commandeered by an unnamed, now-former employee who worked at the company's Florida-based outfit, Certegy Check Services. The employee allegedly sold the information to a data broker, who in turn sold it to a "limited number" of marketing organizations...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/04/...s_records/

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