Boston Globe: Subscriber Credit Data Distributed by Mistake

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Boston Globe.

[snip]

Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette 
were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday.

The confidential information was on the back of paper used in wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers 
and retailers. As many as 9,000 bundles of the T&G, wrapped in paper containing subscribers' names and their 
confidential information, were distributed Sunday to 2,000 retailers and 390 carriers in the Worcester area, said 
Alfred S. Larkin Jr., spokesman for the Globe.

In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100 T&G subscribers also may have been inadvertently released.

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http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/02/01/subscriber_credit_data_distributed_by_mistake/

- ferg


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