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Old 01-February-06, 09:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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who needs hackers to get your information when your local newspaper gives it away for free!!!

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Subscriber credit data distributed by mistake

Globe, Worcester paper affected

By Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | February 1, 2006
Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday.
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The confidential information was on the back of paper used in wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers and retailers. As many as 9,000 bundles of the T&G, wrapped in paper containing subscribers' names and their confidential information, were distributed Sunday to 2,000 retailers and 390 carriers in the Worcester area, said Alfred S. Larkin Jr., spokesman for the Globe.
In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100 T&G subscribers also may have been inadvertently released.
The Globe and T&G, which are both owned by The New York Times Co., share a computer system.
The release of the data is another in a long list of high-profile incidents in which companies, universities, and federal and state agencies have had sensitive financial information lost or stolen.


Globe and T&G officials said the newspapers have notified the four major credit card companies -- American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa -- of the problem. The newspapers will turn over the card numbers of subscribers who may have been affected to the companies upon request. As of last night, Mastercard and Visa have asked for the details. The newspapers are doing the same thing with banks of customers who may be affected.
About 227,000 Globe subscribers pay by credit or bank cards, although it's unclear exactly how many had their information released. Larkin, however, said a reconstruction of the errors suggests a majority of those affected are Globe subscribers.
The newspapers have also set up a hot line, 1-888-665-2644, for customers to call to learn whether their financial information may have been distributed. As an extra precaution, newspaper officials also urged subscribers to contact their credit card companies if they are concerned about unauthorized transactions.
So far, newspaper officials said, there have been no reports that the financial information has been misused.
In a letter to subscribers in today's Globe, Richard H. Gilman, the paper's publisher, said: ''We deeply value the trust our subscribers place in us and are working diligently to remedy this situation. Immediate steps have been taken internally at the Globe and the Telegram & Gazette to increase security around credit card reporting. We regret the disruption and inconvenience that this incident may cause."
The T&G's publisher, Bruce Bennett, issued similar comments in today's T&G.
According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group in San Diego, more than 100 incidents of lost or stolen financial information were reported over the past year. Among them: Bank of America Corp., which lost computer data tapes containing personal information of 1.2 million federal employees, including some senators; Ameritrade, the on-line discount broker, which said it lost a back-up computer tape containing the personal information of some 200,000 customers; and the US Air Force, which confirmed that personal data of 33,000 officers and enlisted personnel were hacked from an online system.Continued...

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You know Ive been seeing alot of things in the news paper about you can go on google and look up someones number and get their address...Its freaking old news! What do these people live under a rock or something? I mean comon? Your average user cant be that stupid

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You know Ive been seeing alot of things in the news paper about you can go on google and look up someones number and get their address...Its freaking old news! What do these people live under a rock or something? I mean comon? Your average user cant be that stupid

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i dunno.. these are the same people who took all of there customers finacial information and then wrapped there product with it...
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you mean to tell me that not one person working at the printing company noticed?
It seems more likely they just didnt care.
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