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Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006
at 12:09 PM (permalink)
As long as newspapers are eager to criticize the practices of seach engines, I can't resist mentioning this story in today's Boston Globe. It appears that the credit card numbers of 240,000 subscribers to the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette were "inadvertently" revealed.
"The confidential information was on the back of paper used in wrapping newspaper bundles for distribution to carriers and retailers. As many as 9,000 bundles of the T&G, wrapped in paper containing subscribers' names and their confidential information, were distributed Sunday to 2,000 retailers and 390 carriers in the Worcester area, said Alfred S. Larkin Jr., spokesman for the Globe. In addition, routing information for personal checks of 1,100 T&G subscribers also may have been inadvertently released."
It's moments like this that I am glad to be writing a blog. 
