Friday, September 21, 2007

Mortgage Data Leaked Over P2P File Network - UPDATE

An AP newswire article by Anick Jesdanun, via MSNBC, reports that:

Three spreadsheets containing more than 5,000 Social Security numbers and other personal details about customers of ABN Amro Mortgage Group were inadvertently leaked over an online file-sharing network by a former employee.

Tiversa Inc., a Pittsburgh company that offers data-leakage protection services, traced the origins of the ABN data to a Florida computer with the BearShare software installed.

BearShare, LimeWire and scores of other programs are designed to distribute and find songs, movies and other files over the Gnutella file-sharing network.

Tiversa Chief Executive Robert Boback said file-sharing programs are commonly misconfigured to share documents their owners never intended to make public.

More here.

UPDATE: 17:32 PDT: Lisa Vass has more information on this over on eWeek: "Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire".

posted by Fergie @ 9/21/2007 03:21:00 PM

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