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[privacy] TransUnion Credit Bureau Security Breached
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:58:08 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Holy smokes. Via KXAN.com (Austin, TX). [snip] TransUnion Credit Bureau is investigating who was able to get into their database and illegally download hundreds of people's personal information. The victims are now being told they'll have to monitor their credit report every month to make sure no one is abusing their identity. There are three major credit bureaus in this country. They have access to all of our credit information. According to the information we have, four different scam companies across the country got more than 1,700 people's credit information after someone obtained the TransUnion log in information from a courthouse in Kingman, Arizona. [snip] More: http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=5752352 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFcHs5q1pz9mNUZTMRAoQoAJ9S1qTNSVVBsNgVvp2DvUDJ1zp4WACeKPx9 eVhUM0Ku0oLwsAFv5eJYJ3s= =2LlF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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