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Oleg
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Certegy data theft

I could be a victim of data theft.
Just got a letter from certegy saying: employee has sold consumer info to a data broker who in turn sold a subset of that data to a marketing organizations also certain credit card info to the gaming industry etc...

Would should I do In this case?


pcdebb
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you and a million others are a victim. it made the news a few weeks ago.


nwrickert
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reply to Oleg
They may offer you one year of free credit monitoring. If they do, you might as well go with that. (That seems to be what a number of businesses do).
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Oleg
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said by nwrickert See Profile :

They may offer you one year of free credit monitoring. If they do, you might as well go with that. (That seems to be what a number of businesses do).
Thanks for the tip I'll call and ask


Valkyre
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reply to Oleg
Glad you started this post. I got the same letter stating that my checking account info may have been sold. I went an put a fraud alert on my credit records. However, the checking account is a joint account. My husbands name is on it too. Should he put a fraud alert out too?
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amysheehan
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reply to Oleg
Thanks for posting this item again. My son received Certegy letter via snail mail today as well.

'Gooogling' has a lot of background info too.


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Valkyre
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reply to Oleg
»www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/legal···685.html

Found an article

quote:
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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IF A KID ASKS YOU where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, Probably because of something you did."
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amysheehan
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reply to Oleg
See this info about Blockbuster and Certegy posted at dslr
»Re: Blockbuster Closing 282 Stores... the End is Near

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fireflier
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reply to Valkyre
said by Valkyre See Profile :


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



I'm sure the broker and the direct-marketing companies went out of their way to confirm this information hadn't been stolen too. Yeah, I bet they spared no expense to validate the integrity of the data. . .

The consumers get screwed and only one person is totally responsible. Riiiiiiight. I'd wager a couple of fact-checking phone calls could have prevented this. They probably didn't ask and didn't want to know where it came from.
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Oleg
Bellsouth Fastaccess
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Birmingham, AL
reply to Oleg
Does anyone knows how certegy screening their employees?


Anon Name

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reply to Oleg
I was also a victim of the Certegy issue. They took over my Ebay account and were trying to sell vehicles under my name. Ebay spotted the problem and deleted the auctions, then emailed me to change all my passwords.
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