[Dataloss] Nikon: Customer information mistakenly released on Web site

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Courtesy PogoWasRight.org

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/15519104.htm

Personal information on more than 3,200 subscribers of a magazine 
published by Nikon Inc. was available on a Web site before the breach was 
discovered, the imaging company said Thursday.

Details including names, addresses and credit card numbers for 3,235 
people could be seen over a nine-hour period on a Web site for Nikon World 
magazine, but only nine new subscribers gained access to the information, 
the company said.

Workers at an Alabama camera store told the Montgomery Advertiser they 
discovered the problem Wednesday morning as one of them tried to subscribe 
to the magazine, which is published quarterly.

"That just can't happen. With ID theft, with all the theft of personal 
data, you just can't make mistake like this," Michael Nimmer, retail 
manager at Capitol Filmworks, told the newspaper. "Customers will leave 
you and go to other places."

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