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Re: [privacy] CIBC Loses Info on 470,000 Canadians
From: "William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:01:59 -0800
I was just reading that on cbc.ca as well: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/01/18/cibc.html And Talvest's note to customers: http://www.talvest.com/pub/en/public/privacy/default.asp -----Original Message----- From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:57 AM To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org Subject: [privacy] CIBC Loses Info on 470,000 Canadians -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Globe and Mail. [snip] The personal information of nearly half-a-million customers at a CIBC mutual fund subsidiary has gone missing, prompting fears of a potential security breach and inciting an investigation from Canada's federal privacy commissioner. A backup computer file containing application data for 470,000 investors at Montreal-based Talvest Mutual Funds disappeared in transit on the way to Toronto recently, the bank said in a news release Thursday. The file contained everything from client names and addresses to signatures, birth dates, bank account numbers and Social Insurance Numbers. Officials at CIBC Asset Management Inc., a division of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said there is no evidence of fraud, nor is there any indication that any data on this hard drive has been accessed. The company did not explain how it lost the drive. Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, who launched a probe of CIBC following a faxing snafu two years ago, said she has determined there are grounds for another investigation in the Talvest matter, even though the bank brought the problem to her attention. [snip] More: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070118.wcibc0118/BNSto ry/Business/home - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFr8L+q1pz9mNUZTMRAn1vAKCfN3K6eqNoOV9m2qZionYVgn/kqACeNtjm sSX+6r+yeDa1u8l6bcvKtjM= =OMhu -----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 _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] CIBC Loses Info on 470,000 Canadians Fergie (Jan 18)
- Re: [privacy] CIBC Loses Info on 470,000 Canadians William Lefkovics (Jan 18)