Ameritrade loses customer account info (200,000 on missing tape)

[RamboLiberal]

http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/19/technology/ameritrade/index.htm?cnn=yes

Ameritrade said Tuesday account information may have been lost for up to 200,000 customers when a package containing tapes with back-up information on customer accounts went missing.

A spokeswoman for the online broker said it was told in February that a package holding four data cassettes containing current and former Ameritrade (Research) account holders' information from the years 2000 through 2003 was misplaced by a shipping company Ameritrade uses. It declined to name the company.

Three of the four tapes were recovered at the shippers' Maryland facility, said the spokeswoman, Donna Kush. The one tape that remains missing contains information on as many as 200,000 current and former customers, she said. Ameritrade has about 3.7 million customers.

Kush says Ameritrade has reviewed the customer information that would be on the missing back-up tape and has decided that only 175,000 of those customers needed to be notified, in accordance with industry standards. The company began sending letters to those customers last week.

[woodsprite]

1. Does anyone else think

it's a coincidence that too much of this kinda crap is happening all of a sudden in BIG numbers? Anybody wanta venture a little "foil hat" theory here?

I'm thinking we're going to have politicians pushing for "chipping" people soon and all banking/travel/purchasing transactions will be biometric. Does * have investments in the biometrics industry? I'm sure some old "retired" repubs do.

[Sydnie]

2. Yeah they can slip them into those silicone implants that all women will

be required to have before long. Doesn't matter that they make you sick, it just makes you more pleasing to a mans eye.

Seriously, with the beginning of the "finger tip scanners" at some grocery stores, we are fast heading in that direction. Perhaps, we should just tatoo our numbers on our arms too. Then all of our accounts can be under ONE number given to us by "god".

Who wants to bet that Ameritrade is on the list of "preferred Social Security Private Accounts" managers?

[woodsprite]

3. And better yet, the military will pay for the silicone implants!

Since * is the opposite of all that is good, shouldn't that have been "given to us by doG"?

[Moderator]

4. duplicate--locking