UK: Tesco in Customer Receipt Security Breach
John Leyden writes on The Register:
An administrative blunder left thousands of customers of UK supermarket chain Tesco open to identity fraud.More here.
Store receipts - containing names and full credit card details - have been found carelessly discarded in a south-east England depot where they'd been taken to be destroyed. The haul would have made a big payday for bin raiding crooks, who might have been able to use the information to complete fraudulent transactions.
The papers were taken to the Christian Salvesen recycling depot in plastic carrier bags - instead of secure containers - and left unattended, The Sun reports.
posted by Fergie @ 12/12/2006 10:11:00 AM
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