[Dataloss] Data Lost on 650,000 Credit Card Holders

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via SFGate.com (AP).

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Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to
100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went
missing.

GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other
retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information includes Social
Security numbers for about 150,000 people.

The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing
last October. It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc.,
a data storage company, and was never checked out but can't be found
either, said Richard C. Jones, a spokesman for GE Money, part of General
Electric Capital Corp.

Jones said there was "no indication of theft or anything of that sort," and
no evidence of fraudulent activity on the accounts involved.

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More:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/17/financial/f1742
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- - ferg

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