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Missing ABN Amro Tape With Two Million Names Found

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:59:44 -0500

Update: Missing ABN Amro tape with 2 million names found. The tape was
lost while DHL was transporting it to a credit reporting service

News Story by Lucas Mearian

DECEMBER 20, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - ABN Amro Mortgage Group said today
it has located a tape containing personal data on about 2 million
residential mortgage customers that had been lost Nov. 18 while being
transported to a credit reporting company.

On Friday, ABN Amro Mortgage Group Inc. told its customers that the
tape was lost while being transported by DHL delivery service.

The tape was being moved from a data center run by a subsidiary of
LaSalle Bank Corp. in Chicago to an Experian credit bureau facility in
Allen, Texas. The tape contained the names, account information,
payment histories and social security numbers for residential mortgage
customers, according to the letter ABN Amro sent customers on last
week.

http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,107230,00.html

ABN Amro eyes electronic data transfers after tape loss incident
A tape containing information on 2M customers was lost for a month

News Story by Lucas Mearian

DECEMBER 20, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - ABN Amro Mortgage Group Inc. has
decided it will no longer send data tapes to its credit reporting
bureaus after one of those tapes -- with the private information of
more than 2 million customers on it -- went missing a month ago (see
"Update: Missing ABN Amro tape with 2 million names found").

http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,107239,00.html

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