[Dataloss] UK: Virgin Media loses CD containing 3000 customer bank details

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http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=18619
20 June 2008

Virgin Media - the entertainment and communications arm of Richard
Branson's Virgin Group - has lost an unencrypted computer disc
containing the bank account details of 3000 UK customers.

Virgin Media discovered the CD - which also contained names and
addresses of customers - was missing on 29 May.

The breach affects customers that signed up to Virgin Media services
in Carphone Warehouse stores from January this year.

It is not known why the data was burned onto a CD - a move thought to
be at odds with the firm's policy of using secure FTP transfers.
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