Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Mortgage data leaked over file network

A disgruntled employee strikes again... A former employee of ABN Amro
Mortgage Group put up a spreadsheet with more than 5,000 Social
Security Numbers on the file sharing network 'BearShare'. A Pittsburgh
based company called Tiversa Inc., discovered that the path came from
an ABN Florida computer that had ShareBear installed on it. It was
then discovered to be traced from the employees home computer. It is
now believed that identity theives have these SSN numbers and plan to
use them in their favor. ABN says that it plans to further investigate
the issue.

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