[Dataloss] AL: Programmer who stole drive containing one million bank records gets 42 months

[lyger]

(wow... this one apparently was really under the radar... - lyger)

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9072198

A former programmer at Birmingham, Ala.-based Compass Bank who stole a 
hard drive containing one million customer records and used some of that 
information to commit debit-card fraud was sentenced last week to 42 
months in prison by an Alabama District Court judge.

James Kevin Real was also ordered to pay back the more than $32,000 that 
he and accomplice Laray Byrd fraudulently withdrew from customer accounts 
between May and July of last year using those counterfeit debit cards.

The Compass Bank compromise is one of the largest bank-related breaches 
yet revealed, in terms of the number of customer records that were 
potentially exposed. The incident, however, appears to have surfaced for 
the first time only after the Birmingham News carried a story on the 
sentencing last week.

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