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Re: Lost British laptop had data on millions
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:46:35 -0500 (EST)
Chris Walsh wrote:
I need somebody to translate this British into American for me, but it looks like a laptop with millions of account numbers and names just got stolen in the UK.
<snip> I share your confusion as to what was compromised. We had posted this story to PogoWasRight.org on Saturday, but I didn't post it here precisely because it wasn't clear what, if any, PII was involved other than names. There was a follow-up story today that we also posted to PogoWasRight, and again, I didn't post it here because it really isn't clear to me that this is PII data loss: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39284689,00.htm Both Nationwide and FSA have refused to say exactly what data was stolen. According to Alan Oliver, Nationwide's head of external affairs, the laptop contained "limited customer information for market research purposes". The building society is willing to say what had not been stolen. No PINs, passwords or information about financial transactions were contained on the computer, and no account details such as customer names, account numbers or sort codes were compromised, Oliver told ZDNet UK on Monday. However, there is a chance that the limited customer data stolen could be linked to other information about individuals and used for identity fraud. [...] This might be a good time to point out that although we do send a lot of items on to this list, PogoWasRight.org has a broader scope on privacy issues and we do include a number of news stories that may be of interest to people here but that are not appropriate for this mail list. In addition to the items that you see me or Ziplock post here, we also cover news stories on medical identity theft, identity theft that does not necessarily involve large breaches, dumpster stories reported by the public, and other stories that may not be within the scope of this mail list. Cheers, Dissent -- http://www.pogowasright.org http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 141 million compromised records in 469 incidents over 6 years.
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