« Previous Post | Blog Home | Next Post »
Ugly Duckling Leaked Sensitive Customer Data For Financial Gain
Posted on May 24, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Robert Brennan of the SoCalCreditDamage.com Blog has a press release on his blog about a class action case he is representing.
Consumers shopping at DRIVE TIME (formerly known as UGLY DUCKING) for used cars usually have filled out credit applications containing all of their confidential financial information, including name, social security number, employment information and home address. These consumers assumed that DRIVE TIME would keep these credit applications under lock and key and not leak them to anyone outside of DRIVE TIME.
…the La Crescenta, California firm of Brennan, Wiener & Associates (“BWA”) discovered that DRIVE TIME had, for some years, been leaking these confidential credit applications in large numbers to insurance brokers for the purpose of placing auto insurance. The affected consumers had no idea that this was happening.
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft, Privacy
Comments
Post a Comment