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Boston Globe: Subscriber Credit Data Distributed by Mistake
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:31:54 GMT
Via The Boston Globe. [snip] Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday. The confidential information was on the back of paper used in wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers and retailers. As many as 9,000 bundles of the T&G, wrapped in paper containing subscribers' names and their confidential information, were distributed Sunday to 2,000 retailers and 390 carriers in the Worcester area, said Alfred S. Larkin Jr., spokesman for the Globe. In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100 T&G subscribers also may have been inadvertently released. [snip] http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/02/01/subscriber_credit_data_distributed_by_mistake/ - ferg -- "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/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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