Wells Fargo mixes up customer statements

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

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By Brendan Kearney
The Post and Courier
October 20, 2011

Several, if not tens of thousands, of Wells Fargo customers received 
portions of other customers? bank statements in the mail Wednesday, 
potentially a massive security breach for the San Francisco-based bank.

A spokesman at the bank?s headquarters reached Thursday morning had not 
heard of the problem. A Charlotte-based spokesman quoted in an ABC News 4 
report on the issue said in an email this afternoon that he is still 
?gathering information.?

Meanwhile, customer reports were streaming in to The Post and Courier and 
other news outlets.

Doug Jenkins, a retired engineer who lives on Wadmalaw Island, received 
his bank statement yesterday afternoon, the first since Wells Fargo 
completed its takeover of Wachovia, Jenkins? former bank. At least it was 
addressed to him.

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