Lost Bank Tapes May Expose Millions

Lost Bank Tapes May Expose Millions

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HARTFORD, Conn. (May 21) - The bank told the state that a box with back-up bank tapes were lost in February from a truck that transports and stores tapes in its storage facility, Blumenthal said. The tapes contained Social Security numbers, names and addresses and possibly bank account numbers and balances, he said.

"This security breach seems highly dangerous, indeed possibly devastating in light of the identity theft threat," Blumenthal wrote to Stephen Dolmatch, general counsel of Bank of New York Mellon Shareowner Services.

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[edit on 5/22/2008 by Jessicamsa]

How does a bank lose millions of pieces of information about its customers and have no idea where it is? Is this an inside job or what?

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this isent by far the first time something like this happend. its happened quite a few times in the past. the real conspiracy angle is the possibility that the tapes werent lost but rather sold.

Originally posted by krill
this isent by far the first time something like this happend. its happened quite a few times in the past. the real conspiracy angle is the possibility that the tapes werent lost but rather sold.

I agree that they were unlikely to have been lost. This is totally shady. Banks are very unsafe/unstable more and more these days it seems.

While I was a video store manager I had access to hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers, along with other important information, and including the cardholder's signature.

Originally posted by jackinthebox
While I was a video store manager I had access to hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers, along with other important information, and including the cardholder's signature.

But banks have much higher security. I work for a bank as a computer programmer and the security is so high that even the programmers are not allowed access to sensitive data.