Over Half a Million Bank Accounts Breached

Gone Phishing writes "CNN is reporting that about 676,000 bank accounts in at least four banks (Bank of America, Wachovia, Commerce Bancorp, and PNC Financial Services) have had personal information "illegally sold". Over 60,000 customers have been notified so far."

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Banks ? Secure institutions?

[guildsolutions]

Our banks are supposed to be some of the most secure instituions available to us. I wonder if they will reverse the charge on my credit card if I claim I didnt make it and it was caused by my personal information being breeched...

You're joking, right?

[HangingChad]

Then, you have those logs checked by another person, not at that location. Was there a legitimate reason for the access (withdrawl/deposit)? Was that access initiated by the customer?

PAY someone to do access security? ROFLTIPMP! Not until there are massive fines for data breaches is anything like that going to happen. And with this administration in office you can forget that.

I'm surprised Bush doesn't figure out some way to reward them for having your indentity stolen. As it is there's absolutely no down side for Chase, except some minor embarrassment. The credit monitoring is a largely symbolic effort aimed at trying to keep their customers from stomping off in disgust.

lol. Nice pipe dream, though.