[Dataloss] Lost British laptop had data on millions

[George Toft]

IIRC, a Building Society is the same as an American Credit Union and it 
is focused on home loans.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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Chris Walsh wrote:
> I need somebody to translate this British into American for me, but  
> it looks like a laptop with millions of account numbers and names  
> just got stolen in the UK.
> 
> <snip>
> THE Financial Services Authority is investigating an extraordinary  
> lapse of security at Nationwide building society after a laptop  
> computer containing sensitive customer account information was stolen  
> in a burglary at an employee’s home.
> 
> Nationwide confirmed the computer held customer information, but  
> insisted that this did not include “pin numbers, passwords, or  
> information about financial transactions”.
> 
> But banking sources said last night that some reports circulating in  
> the industry have suggested information on several million accounts  
> may have been stored on the machine, whose user was on call.  
> Nationwide declined to give further details, saying it was acting on  
> the advice of the police.
> </snip>
> 
> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-2449656,00.html
> 
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