As many of you may already know, the Boston Globe and sister publication the Worcester Telegram and Gazette accidently released the credit card, bank card or check routing numbers ofnearly a 1/4 of a million people.
Dispite what the story says, as of 7;30 on 1/31/06 when you call their special hotline, they can still can not tell you if you credit card number has potentialy fallen into criminal hands.
Update, they took the hotline # out of the story. After the customer service people said they could not give me the info, I call the reporter and said the info in his story was wrong. He said he got it off a press release he got. About 15 minutes later, I got a call from the customer service supervisor saying I was not part of the 240,000 affected. For those who read my (sometime) blog rants, I was annoyed enough that they wanted to got back to me. But apparently don’t want to release the phone # because they can’t handle the volume (at one point they said they had the info, but couldn’t go thru the 240,000 names). Sounds like a FUBAR