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Oops, that laptop had credit card info for 230K people on it. Our bad

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

“A security breach occurred in late December, Ameriprise [American Express] said, after a company laptop was stolen from an employee’s parked car. The laptop contained a list of reassigned customer accounts that was being stored unencrypted, a violation of Ameriprise’s rules.”

I’ve always said the majority of data theft cases were low tech smash-and-grabs.

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