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Wells Fargo mixes up customer statements
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:10:45 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/20/wells-fargo-mixes-customer-statements/ By Brendan Kearney The Post and Courier October 20, 2011 Several, if not tens of thousands, of Wells Fargo customers received portions of other customers? bank statements in the mail Wednesday, potentially a massive security breach for the San Francisco-based bank. A spokesman at the bank?s headquarters reached Thursday morning had not heard of the problem. A Charlotte-based spokesman quoted in an ABC News 4 report on the issue said in an email this afternoon that he is still ?gathering information.? Meanwhile, customer reports were streaming in to The Post and Courier and other news outlets. Doug Jenkins, a retired engineer who lives on Wadmalaw Island, received his bank statement yesterday afternoon, the first since Wells Fargo completed its takeover of Wachovia, Jenkins? former bank. At least it was addressed to him. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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