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Bank Of America Loses 1.2 Million Customer Records

Posted by Zonk on from the great-week-for-customer-service dept.

Christopher Reimer writes "C|Net is reporting that Bank of America lost 1.2 million customer records when some backup tapes went missing while being shipped to a backup center. The lost records mainly effect U.S. government employees involved in the SmartPay program. From the article: 'The acknowledgment comes as several other cases of businesses losing consumer information have come to light.'"

4 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. heh by aendeuryu · · Score: 5, Funny

    SmartPay program

    Doesn't sound so smart right now...

  2. Time to fight fire with fire! by gearmonger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since I'm apparently so at risk of having my online identity stolen, I guess it's time to go steal a few myself -- never hurts to have some backup indentities!

  3. Re:Wonder if they were using Windows? by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is /. Anytime anything bad happens, MS has to be implicated somehow. I believe there is a function for that in SlashCode.

  4. They Are Getting Fined! by Evil+W1zard · · Score: 5, Funny

    They will be getting fined $500 for exposing individuals personal information and they will also be getting fined $50,000 by the FCC because someone at the company said "Oh Shit!"

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