CORRECTION: Earlier we had erroneously said the company involved was Citibank, in fact it's Citigroup. Our apologies.
It's not like anything bad could happen with Social Security numbers and other customer details but thankfully they are telling us that there's nothing to worry about and everyone will be OK. Whew!
Citigroup Inc. on Monday said computer tapes containing account and payment history data, including Social Security numbers, on 3.9 million customers were lost by United Parcel Service Inc.Fortunately those brillant folks from Citigroup did not bother to encrypt those data files because who wants to spend money on regular schmucks after all when you don't really have to? Just where do those bleeding heart lefties think Citigroup would find the time, money and resources to bother with that extra step? Hell, that would probably cause a serious dent in the profit margins of Citigroup...
The beauty here is that no only has the world's largest bank been involved, but the world's largest shipping company has somehow lost the shipment of tapes. UPS will probably talk about it as though it's just a pesky sock-in-the-laundry that was lost because you can't really expect them to get it right every time either, can you? American capitilism at it's best and like the President, it's a chorus of the "I didn't do it" folks in corporate America.
I realize that the our fine friends in the Democratic Party, who find it necessary to criticize Howard Dean yet somehow fail to jump on the daily assault by the GOP, may be a little slow but when are they going to pull their heads out of their asses and get a clue here? When are we going to see some action here on this? Until someone insists on some responsibility (oohhh, what a nasty word these days) we're going to seeing personal data loses like this for a while.
