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Sovereign Bank has 3 laptops stolen--customer data lost
Posted on Aug 26, 2006 by Tom Fragala
AP via Boston Globe has this one.
Sovereign Bank is warning thousands of customers that their personal data may have been stolen along with three managers' laptops taken earlier this month in Massachusetts.
"There's no information any of the accounts have been compromised," bank spokesman Carl Brown told the newspaper. He would not say how many letters were sent to customers Aug. 21, but said it was in the thousands.
Brown said the laptop computers used by branch managers and other managerial staff included unspecified personal information but not account information.
Filed under: Data Breach
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Pete on Aug 26, 2006
Why do bank branch managers need to keep customers' personal info on their laptops? Why the hell are they carrying these laptops around? Were they stolen from their cars, their homes or from the branch itself? Don't their customers deserve to know this kind of information? It would be nice if the bank's flack (and the Globe's reporter) would answer these friggin' obvious questions.
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