US bank 'loses' customer details
 

The Bank of America has revealed it has lost computer tapes containing account details of more than one million customers who are US federal employees.
Several members of the US Senate are among those affected, who could now be vulnerable to identity theft.

Senate sources say the missing tapes may have been stolen from a plane by baggage handlers.

The bank gave no details of how the records disappeared, but said they had probably not been misused.

Customers' accounts were being monitoring and account holders would be notified if any "unusual activity" was detected, bank officials said.

Investigation

Bank of America said the tapes went missing in December while being shipped to a back-up data centre.

"We, with federal law authorities, have done a very robust, thorough investigation on this and neither we nor they would make the statement lightly that we believe those tapes to be lost," Alexandra Tower, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina-based bank, told Time magazine.

But although there was no evidence of criminal activity, the bank said, the Secret Service - a federal agency whose brief includes investigations of serious financial crime - is said to be looking into the loss.

New York Senator Charles Schumer said he was told by the Senate Rules Committee that the tapes were probably stolen from a commercial plane.

"Whether it is identity theft, terrorism, or other theft, in this new complicated world baggage handlers should have background checks and more care should be taken for who is hired for these increasingly sensitive positions," the Democrat senator said.

Details of his Vermont colleague Pat Leahy's credit card account are among those missing, Senator Leahy's spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said.

About 900,000 military and civilian staff at the defence department are among the 1.2 million affected, according to a Pentagon spokesman.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4300371.stm

thats not good.. :(

I read in another story that this happened months ago and they had to get clearance to notify the customers! Wild.

wtf are "computer tapes"

are they still storing data on audio cassettes like we did back in the atari
days?

Probably those small tapes that hold many gb of data.

such as:

Server drive's tape backup
Computer Center of University of Turku has two Sun StorEdge L1800 -systems to back up files on the mainframe. They both have two DLT 7000 -tapedrives and 48 tapeslots. One tape can contain 35-70GB. They are used to secure the unix-computers maintained by the computer center and some NT-servers. With the backup software (SolsticeBackup) it is possible to secure Solaris- and NT- computers and also some computers with Linux-operating system. The capasity of the tape drives is currently 450GB. It is not possible to backup workstations (since there is no sufficient capasity).

I see youre still posting old posting old news....when will you realize that youre not the only one watching television and posting on gfy?
You do this almost every fucking day...whats the point?

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