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Canada: Rogers Blames Outside Employee After Client Data Found Unsecured

Jeff Gray writes in The Globe and Mail:

Rogers Communications Inc. was blaming a rogue employee at a company it hired to sell cable TV and high-speed Internet access after hundreds of customer order forms containing sensitive personal information turned up in a downtown Toronto parking lot.

"We are investigating this internally," Taanta Gupta, the company's vice-president of communications, said yesterday after reports of the breach and concerns about the danger of identity theft surfaced in the media.

She said as many as 300 or 400 forms, containing names, addresses, phone numbers, social insurance numbers and driver's licence numbers -- but no credit card numbers, she insisted -- were found by a passerby in a parking lot on Mutual Street, south of Ryerson University.

posted by Fergie @ 4/09/2007 11:09:00 AM