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St. Petersburg, FL-based Certegy Check Services Inc. is a division of Fidelity National Information Services, a financial processing company. A former employee of Certegy, which provides check services to US retail merchants, misappropriated and sold consumer information to a data broker who in turn sold a subset of that data to a limited number of direct marketing organizations.

According to a civil complaint filed by Certegy in the Circuit Court of the Sixth Judicial Circuit in St. Petersburg, FL, the employee was senior level database administrator William G. Sullivan, who had been employed by the company for seven years and who was entrusted with defining and enforcing data access rights.

According to the filing, Sullivan obtained information from Certegy’s database and, either individually or through his wholly owned entity, S&S, was paid for the information by list broker JAM Marketing Inc. JAM had gone on to disseminate the misappropriated information to other direct marketing firms, including Strategia Marketing LLC, Data Secure IP LLC, MC List Escrow Inc.; Quality Resources Inc.; Whitehat.com Inc; and Quality Teleservices Management Inc., doing business as Custom Response Teleservices.

In the court document, Certegy said that the broker and the direct-marketing companies were not aware that the information had been stolen.

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