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CIBC loses info on 470,000 Canadians
From: "Dissent" <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:41:27 -0500 (EST)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070118.wcibc0118/BNStory/Business/home The personal information of nearly half-a-million customers at a CIBC mutual fund subsidiary has gone missing, prompting fears of a potential security breach and forcing the bank to spring into damage control mode. A backup computer file containing application data for 470,000 investors at Montreal-based Talvest Mutual Funds disappeared in transit on the way to Toronto recently, the bank said in a news release Thursday. The file contained everything from client names and addresses to signatures, birth dates, bank account numbers and Social Security numbers. Officials at CIBC Asset Management Inc., a division of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said there is no evidence of fraud, nor is there any indication that any data on this hard drive has been accessed. The company did not explain how it lost the drive. [...] -- Privacy-related news and resources: http://www.pogowasright.org Privacy news headlines feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 144 million compromised records in 536 incidents over 7 years.
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