2.3M Records Containing Credit Card, Bank Account Information Stolen

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company, said Tuesday a worker at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information.

The employee sold the information to an unidentified data broker who sold it to several direct marketing companies, but the data were not used in identity theft or other fraudulent financial activity, Fidelity said in a statement.

About 2.2 million records stolen from Certegy Check Services Inc. contained bank account information and 99,000 contained credit card information, Fidelity said.

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I always get sick to my stomach when I read stories like this... our personal data is not safe anywhere, anymore.

Originally posted by elevatedone


I always get sick to my stomach when I read stories like this... our personal data is not safe anywhere, anymore.

This is the reason I have something that monitors my credit on a realtime basis.

Thanks for posting this info. I can't believe no one has responded to it yet.