Boston Globe Accidentally Hands Out Its Readers Credit Card Info...

Editor & Publisher February 1, 2006 at 11:13 AM

Two Massachusetts newspapers, The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, said Tuesday that slips containing the names and credit card numbers of tens of thousands of customers were accidentally delivered with bundles of papers on Sunday in Worcester.

The newspapers were first notified of the security breach on Monday by a convenience store clerk. It took until late Monday for officials to confirm the data on the back of the paper were, indeed, credit and debit card numbers. Senior managers learned of the security breach Tuesday morning.

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