Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Fidelity Natl reports big data breach, axes worker

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, July 3 - Fidelity National Information Services Inc. , an electronic payment processor, said on Tuesday a database administrator stole and sold customer data, exposing as many as 2.3 million bank and credit card records, and that the worker has been fired.



The employee, who worked at the company's Certegy Check Services Inc. unit, sold the information to a data broker, which in turn sold some of it to a "limited number" of direct marketers.


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