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Chase Data for 2.6 Million Ends up in Landfill
svonkie writes to mention a ComputerWorld story about some bad news from some 2.6 Million Chase credit card customers. These folks are being told that tape backups with their information were mistakenly thrown away back in July. There's apparently no need to worry about possibility of compromised personal information; the company believes the tapes were destroyed at a landfill. Just the same, "To prevent similar incidents, Chase said it is strengthening its security procedures and is conducting a review of all data storage and protection processes. Chase began notifying the affected customers about the incident yesterday and said the process is expected to take two to three weeks. The company is offering one year of free credit monitoring to people whose Social Security numbers were on the tapes."
Gee, what if this was an inside job, and they
were placed in the trash to be retrieved later
before making it to the dump?
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
Is it just me, or is the whole "pay for" credit monitoring industry a big con?
You have to PAY to find out what information may or may not be stored about you? It may be correct; it may be erroneous: you don't find out until you've stumped up the cash (and yes, I realise that the credit companies are required to make information available in the event that you are turned down for credit... but what about those who are just curious?).
And in this instance, what happens when that year is up?
The landfill or Chase?
Both. Its the only way to be sure.
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it