Bank loses credit-card info of 1.2M federal workers

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Bank loses credit-card info of 1.2M federal workers
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,100061,00.html>

By Joanne Morrison
FEBRUARY 26, 2005
REUTERS

Computer tapes containing credit-card records of U.S. Senators and
more than a million U.S. government employees are missing, Bank of
America said yesterday, putting the customers at increased risk of
identity theft.


The security breach, which included data on a third of the Pentagon's
staff, angered lawmakers already concerned after criminals gained
access to thousands of consumer profiles in a database maintained by a
data profiling company, ChoicePoint Inc. (see story)

Bank of America Corp. did not release details of how the tapes were
lost, but Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said he had been
informed by the Senate Rules Committee that the data tapes were likely
stolen off a commercial plane by baggage handlers.

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