Employee steals 2.3m records from data firm
As I have said repeatedly, this is getting really old…How many times does this have to happen?
A senior database administrator at payment firm Certegy Check Services secretly copied 2.3 million records containing bank-account and credit-card information and sold it to marketing firms, Fidelity National Information Services (FNIS), Certegy’s parent company, said this week.
The incident came to light when one of Certegy’s retail checking clients complained that marketing pitches appeared to be targeting its customers. FNIS conducted an investigation into its systems, but could not find evidence of intrusion, so the company requested that the U.S. Secret Service investigate the source of the marketing firm’s information. The law-enforcement agency’s queries pinpointed an employee at Certegy, who had apparently electronically copied the data and removed it physically from the company’s offices.
Full article and source: Security Focus
