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January 12, 2006
Information Just Wants to Be Free
As was mentioned on yesterday’s STR front page the big-shot corporate types don’t get especially worried if they lose the personal data of their customer base. (“Fook ‘em! There’s plenty more where they came from.”)
Why do I say this with such conviction and authority? Well, in the news today yet again is another announcement along those lines:
A “computer tape from a Connecticut bank containing personal data on 90,000 customers was lost in transit recently, the bank reported today.” Ho hum. “Sorry about that folks. We’ll give ya a free year of Credit Watch (TM) and our heartfelt apologies.” And that is about all the banks ever have to say about it too. Warms your heart their concern, eh?
Meanwhile a few gigabytes worth of customer data such as social security numbers, account numbers, balances, lines-of-credit, DOBs, home address, telephone numbers, place of employment, and basically everything else you’d need to do some truly damaging identity theft scams is likely bouncing around on the Internet as we speak.
Posted by Ali Massoud at January 12, 2006 10:50 AM
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