Monday, October 5, 2009

Bank in Wyoming Gmails 1300 Account Details to Wrong Address

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CNet News reports that Google has recently been ordered to deactivate a Gmail account that has received a misdirected email with sensitive information from a bank in Wyoming.



The email in question contained names, addresses, SS numbers and loan information on 1,300 customers, and was followed by another email from the same bank asking the account owner to disregard and delete the previous message and contact the bank to confirm he did it. Since it hasn't been done, the bank has contacted Google and asked them to deactivate the account.



Editor's Note: Scary



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