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Data Leak

Jun 2nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm by Susie

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The names and credit-card numbers of 243,000 Hotels.com customers were on a laptop computer stolen from an employee of accounting firm Ernst & Young, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Hotels.com, which is owned by Expedia (Research) and Ernst & Young, its auditor, began notifying customers that their information was stolen last week.

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on 02 Jun 2006 at 5:57 pm1somegirl

my ex-husband was an i.t. guy for e&y - i tell you, the more i know about these big corps, the more i wonder how anything ever gets done, or done even halfway well, in this country.

i’m tearing my hair out today.
on 02 Jun 2006 at 6:14 pm2somegirl

here’s another one for you:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13078977/
on 03 Jun 2006 at 1:06 am3fallenmonk

I have used hotels.com a couple of times but I don’t like paying for my hotel up front so I avoid all these types if I can, and go direct to the hotel website. This just give me another excuse when the corporate accounting folks tell me I should use the discounters.
There are very simple things that Expedia could have had in place that would have made this impossible. This kind of data should not be let out of a secure environment. No excuse except negligence.

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