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Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK
From: "ziplock" <ziplock () pogowasright org>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 05:46:51 -0400 (EDT)
By a show of hands (or reply email), how many here have ever received a breach notification or otherwise been informed that their personal information was compromised? In a related question, how many here have been actual victims of identity theft?
I received notification from the VA recently, but have so far not been a victim of identity theft. But that's hardly comforting, although I do see the distinction between data loss and ID theft I don't see the importance of the distinction. Would we be completely comfortable if someone stole the key to your front door, and we were unable, forever, to change the lock? Would we be comfortable if the police told us "there's no reason to believe they'll use the key to steal your stuff, no reason to believe they'll ever sell the key"?
Interesting that his SSN was somehow tied to his checking account. I honestly don't remember if I had to give by bank that information to open my account. Good food for thought..
I worked in the banking industry for a while, and as I recall, fed regs require you to give the (U.S.) bank your SSN to open any type account. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 137 million compromised records in 430 incidents over 6 years.
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- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK, (continued)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK B.K. DeLong (Oct 19)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Dennis Opacki (Oct 19)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK blitz (Oct 20)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK George Toft (Oct 20)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK lyger (Oct 20)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK George Toft (Oct 20)
- Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK lyger (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Joshua Fritsch (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Al Mac (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Henry Brown (Oct 23)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK ziplock (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Chris Walsh (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK ziplock (Oct 22)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Doctor Spook (Oct 22)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK dano (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Ivan Junge (Oct 23)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Nick Lewis (Oct 23)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Marjorie Simmons (Oct 20)