Via SecurityFocus -
A senior database administrator at payment firm Certegy Check Services secretly copied 2.3 million records containing bank-account and credit-card information and sold it to marketing firms, Fidelity National Information Services (FNIS), Certegy's parent company, said this week.
The incident came to light when one of Certegy's retail checking clients complained that marketing pitches appeared to be targeting its customers. FNIS conducted an investigation into its systems, but could not find evidence of intrusion, so the company requested that the U.S.
Secret Service investigate the source of the marketing firm's information. The law-enforcement agency's queries pinpointed an employee at Certegy, who had apparently electronically copied the data and removed it physically from the company's offices.
So far, the information has only appeared to have been used for marketing purposes, Renz Nichols, president of Certegy Check Services, said in a statement on Tuesday.
"We have no reason to believe that the theft resulted in any subsequent fraudulent activity or financial damage to the consumer, and we are taking the necessary steps to see that any further use of the data stops," Nichols stated.
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