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Certegy Emplyoyee Sells My Personal Information |
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Thursday, 02 August 2007 |
I got a letter in the mail today from a credit card (or some type of payment processing) company named Certegy. Apparently, they do online businesses in the game industry (among other things?). Anyway, the letter gave the last 4 digits of an account number (off of a credit card) that was in the mix of stuff this ex-employee stole and sold to a "data firm." They say that they don't think the information is being used nefariously, although the information of 99,000 of the 2.3 million users included credit card data. The scumbag that did this is named William G. Sullivan, and investigation is pending.
The company has issued letters to affected users, and has also set up ways to combat any theft that may occur. In my case, I am totally safe, and the joke is on the scammer, because the card information they got for me was an American Express giftcard, which was spent dry long ago.
Keep an eye out for a nondescript white envelope arriving at your house via First Class mail.
More sources of information:
Certegy Employee Steals & Sells Consumer Data
Employee Sells Personal Information
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