US Compass Bank May 2007 Physical Action (Q15931)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Compass Bank May 2007 Physical Action |
A data breach risk event |
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May 2007
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A former programmer at Birmingham, Ala.-based Compass Bank who stole a hard drive containing 1 million customer records and used some of that information to commit debit-card fraud was sentenced last week to 42 months in prison by an Alabama district court judge. James Kevin Real was also ordered to pay back the more than $32,000 that he and accomplice Laray Byrd fraudulently withdrew from customer accounts between May and July of last year using those counterfeit debit cards. The Compass Bank compromise is one of the largest bank-related breaches yet revealed, in terms of the number of customer records that were potentially exposed. The incident, however, appears to have surfaced for the first time only after the Birmingham News carried a story on the sentencing last week. Ed Bilek, a sp (English)
