Friday, July 6, 2007

Fidelity National data breach

Fidelity National Information Services, an electronic payment processor, said on Tuesday a database administrator <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2154837,00.asp?kc=EWKNLNAV070507STR1">stole and sold customer data,</A> exposing as many as 2.3 million bank and credit card records, and that the worker has been fired.

The employee, who worked at the company's Certegy Check Services unit, sold the information to a data broker, which in turn sold some of it to a "limited number" of direct marketers.

These activities led to customers receiving marketing solicitations, though there is no evidence of fraud, Fidelity said. The stolen data include names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and bank account and card information.

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