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AL: Programmer who stole drive containing one million bank records gets 42 months
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:57:16 +0000 (UTC)
(wow... this one apparently was really under the radar... - lyger) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9072198 A former programmer at Birmingham, Ala.-based Compass Bank who stole a hard drive containing one million customer records and used some of that information to commit debit-card fraud was sentenced last week to 42 months in prison by an Alabama District Court judge. James Kevin Real was also ordered to pay back the more than $32,000 that he and accomplice Laray Byrd fraudulently withdrew from customer accounts between May and July of last year using those counterfeit debit cards. The Compass Bank compromise is one of the largest bank-related breaches yet revealed, in terms of the number of customer records that were potentially exposed. The incident, however, appears to have surfaced for the first time only after the Birmingham News carried a story on the sentencing last week. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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