CIBC loses info on 470,000 Canadians

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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 forcing the bank to spring into damage
control mode.

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 Security
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.

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