Wells Fargo offers reward for stolen computers

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By James Niccolai
IDG News Service
11/22/03

Wells Fargo is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of thieves who stole computers earlier this
month containing confidential information about some of its customers.

The computers contained information about "a small percentage" of the
banks personal line and loan customers, including names, addresses,
Social Security numbers and their personal line-of-credit account
number, Wells Fargo said in a statement Friday. They were stolen by
burglars from the offices of an analyst hired by the bank in Concord,
Calif.

Wells Fargo had no information as of Friday afternoon to suggest any
stolen information had been misused. It said it is notifying all
affected customers by mail and telephone and taking steps to protect
them, including monitoring use of their accounts more closely for
unusual activity and changing account numbers.

The bank is working with the Concord Police and the Northern
California Computer Crime Task Force, it said. Anyone with information
about the burglary should contact WeTip Anonymous at the toll-free
number 1-800-78-CRIME.

"We want to apologize to our customers, and assure them that we have
written to every customer whose information was on the computers, and
we're calling them as well," said Wells Fargo spokeswoman Lynn
Greenwood.

She declined to say how many customers were affected, citing the
ongoing investigation.



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