Mortgage data leaked over file network Notme

Citigroup confirmed that files involving names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers were leaked by an employee of its ABN Amro Mortgage Group unit onto the LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing network.Tiversa Inc. a company that offers data-leakage protection services, founded Excel spreadsheets from the desktop of a financial analyst ABN Amro Mortgage Group running LimeWire.The information exposed on LimeWire could get to million of users from around the world, given that there are at least 10 million nodes online in a P2P file-sharing network at any point in time."As an identity thief, [that gives you] the keys to [those individuals'] digital life," said Chris Gormley, Tiversa's chief operating officer.The employee of ABN Amro responsible for the leakage told to the Dow Jones Newswire that she wasn't aware of the breach before Dow Jones contacted her on Sept. 20.Earlier in September, in Seattle a man was arrested in what the Justice Department said was the first case brought against someone for using file-sharing data to commit identity theft. Gregory Thomas Kopiloff pleaded not guilty. In a statement, Michael Hanretta, a spokesman for ABN parent company Citigroup Inc., said that the company is also investigating."Citi's information-security standards require that confidential information be stored on Citi-managed devices," he said. "Protecting customer information remains a priority at Citi and we remain fully committed to physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information."

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