Bill & Ted
Orange,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, December 19, 2005
This was pulled from the Mortgage servicing fraud forum . org Who Knows Yesterday at 03:08 AM -------------------------------- You read the news and the story, but rumor has it that Ameriquest employees wanted to embarrass the crooked Arnall and stole the Dutch bank's data. Intrigue is so much fun. Let's see how this develops and if the crooked con Arnall, is anointed Ambassador for Dutch. ABN AMRO Loses Data on Mortgage Customers By Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters NEW YORK (Dec. 16) -- A U.S. mortgage firm owned by Dutch bank ABN AMRO Bank NV said on Friday it had suspended physical tape deliveries after a computer tape with data of 2 million residential mortgage customers was lost in transit, the latest in a string of U.S. data security scares. ABN AMRO Mortgage Group Inc., a unit of ABN AMRO's LaSalle Bank, said data on the tape, which went missing in November included residential mortgage customer names, account information, payment histories and social security numbers. The company said it had no knowledge the data on this tape had been misused, but Chief Executive Thomas Goldstein said he understood this incident could cause concern and the company was contacting customers to answer any questions. "Although we have no reason to believe that this information has been misused, we are also informing (customers) of steps they can take to protect themselves," Goldstein said in a statement. Identity theft has become a major concern in the United States after several high-profile incidents of ID theft, including the theft of tens of thousands of personal records from data provider ChoicePoint Inc. More than 1.2 million such records were stolen from Bank of America Corp. earlier this year and hackers breached the security of the University of California network exposing the personal data of 1.4 million people. Last month, U.S. aerospace manufacturer Boeing Co. said a laptop computer containing names, social security numbers and other sensitive information of 161,000 current and former employees had been stolen. DHL INVESTIGATING ABN AMRO Mortgage Group said its computer tape went missing after being picked up by delivery firm DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post AG, from the company's Chicago data processing center on Nov. 18. It did not arrive at its destination -- an Experian credit bureau facility in Allen, Texas. The company, having notified authorities, said it is notifying each of the affected individuals and would pay for their enrollment in credit monitoring programs. "Following the loss of the tape containing the data, we suspended the physical tape transfers to the credit bureau companies and are transmitting that customer data from our Chicago data processing center exclusively by secure and encrypted electronic means," said Goldstein. DHL said it regretted it had been unable to find the package and was investigating, searching its network and facilities. "Although we have not yet closed the investigation, to date we have uncovered no error in protocol, indications that this package was stolen or that the information contained in it has been used in fraudulent activity," said DHL's U.S. spokesman Jonathan Baker. U.S. consumer watchdogs are pushing Congress to enact a law that requires companies to implement tough data security standards and to notify customers, law enforcement and credit- reporting agencies whenever there is a breach. But a study released earlier this month by ID Analytics, a California-based fraud detection company, found that, even in the most dangerous data breaches only about 1 in 1,000 victims had their identities stolen. Additional reporting by James Regan in Frankfurt greg collins Today at 07:42 PM ------------------ Judith Hopkinson an Ameriquest exec has a cushy position at U.C board of regents after big donation with Ameriquest money. Bank of America and Deutche Bank are involved in the Ameriquest money trail. U.C regents are involved in the Linux project which is the base of hackers just some food for thought in a hurry right now have to go. ooooooooooooooooooooooo