[Dataloss] Wells Fargo Warns of Possible Data Theft

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12647549/

Wells Fargo & Co., the second-largest U.S. mortgage lender, Friday said a 
computer containing confidential data about mortgage customers and 
prospective customers is missing and may have been stolen.

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, which is also the No. 5 U.S. bank and 
serves more than 23 million customers, said a "global express shipping 
company" had been delivering the computer from one of the bank's 
facilities to another.

The missing data include names, addresses, Social Security numbers and 
mortgage loan deposit numbers. Wells Fargo said there is no indication 
that anyone has misused the data, or accessed the data without 
authorization.

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