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CA: Mortgage Company Investigates Customer Data Breach
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:56:51 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.my58.com/news/14579242/detail.html Countrywide Home Loans investigated personal data from its customers left unattended outside a West Sacramento post office Monday, company officials said. "Information just sitting there. Anyone could walk up and open the envelopes," concerned citizen Dorian Dunlap said. "I don't understand why any lending institution would be that irresponsible." Dunlap said she photographed stacks of envelopes from Countrywide Home Loans left unattended outside a west Sacramento post office Monday and reported it to KCRA 3. The U.S. Post Office spokesman Ralph Petty said the practice of customers leaving mail next to a full mail box is common, but not encouraged. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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