Mortgage.com Notifies Customers of Data Privacy Breach

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Another day, another irresponsible company.

[snip]

Many times after we run a story, Security Fix readers write in to tell us about related incidents. This morning I 
received an e-mail from a Virginia woman who was recently notified by her mortgage company that it had somehow lost 
track of a backup tape containing the names, account information, payment history and Social Security numbers of more 
than 2 million customers.

The company -- Troy, Mich.-based ABN-AMRO Mortgage -- said the tape was lost while being transported by a DHL courier 
en route to credit reporting company Experian.

[snip]

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/12/daily_data_brea.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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