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Moneygram Data Breach Disaster
Posted on Jan 16, 2007 by Tom Fragala
What a security horrow show. Bank account numbers, SSN’s and driver’s licenses for 79,000 people were breached. It doesn’t get much worse than that. Reuters reports:
MoneyGram International Inc. the second-largest U.S. money transfer company, on Friday said someone illegally obtained access through the Internet to a company server containing personal data for about 79,000 customers.
The Minneapolis-based company said data that might have been accessed include names, addresses, phone numbers, biller account numbers and bank account numbers. Social Security, driver's license and state identification numbers were not accessed, it said.
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft
Tags: data theft, idtheft identitytheft, privacy, security
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