[Dataloss] Newspaper CC disclosure aftermath

[Chris Walsh]

Via American Banker (paywall):

"Boston Globe: The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette spent the day dealing with the aftermath of a data breach. A deluge of angry customers overwhelmed a special hotline set up to deal with the complaints from the printing of credit card information on newspaper-bundle "toppers". Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly is looking into whether the newspapers violated the state's consumer-protection law. Publishers probably can't rely on a federal-preemption defense."

More at http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/02/02/hot_lines_deluged_after_tg_globe_leak/