Monday, January 21, 2008

Credit Issuer Says Data Lost for 650,000 Customers

From ZDNet News January 18, 2008...

A computer tape containing personal data of 650,000 customers of about 230 retailers including J.C. Penney is missing, credit card issuer GE Money said on Friday.

Richard Jones, a spokesman for the General Electric unit, said a backup computer tape being stored at a facility operated by Iron Mountain, an information protection and storage company, had been lost.

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