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180,000 people’s Identity Stolen

Posted by geeknews at 1:16 AM on January 31, 2003

Not a good time to be a Canadian IBM has lost a harddrive of a Insurance company that contains enough information to ruin 180,000 peoples lives. The data on the drive contains names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers’ maiden names and their bank account details.

Good Lord can you imagine what damage can be done with this information. [Toronto Star]

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