Trilight Zone

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Bank of America officials have announced that tapes containing credit card data, Social Security numbers, and addresses for US Senators and more than a million government employees--including a third of the Pentagon's staff--have gone missing. Bank of America would not comment on how the tapes were lost, but Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) says the Senate Rules Committee believe they were stolen from a commercial airplane by baggage handlers. Of the 1.2 million account holders affected, over 900,000 belong to Defense employees. The tapes were lost in December 2004, but Bank of America did not inform account holders until recently under orders from federal law enforcement. No identity thefts have been reported, and Bank of America considers the tapes 'lost'. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) hopes this incident will push Congress to examine the threats faulty security practices pose to privacy rights.

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