Subscriber credit data distributed by mistake

[Kage_]

From the Boston Globe: "Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday."

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/02/01/subscriber_credit_data_distributed_by_mistake/

 

[spazntwitch]

Why did that information need to be bundled on the newspaper anyway?

 

[clubchick]

sometimes it's best to pay by check!

 

[Kage_]

sometimes it's best to pay by check!

I wish that was the case.

"In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100 T&G subscribers also may have been inadvertently released."