FTC Settles Breach Complaint With Student Lender
Mar 06, 08 Summary: The US FTC has settled a complaint against student lender Goal Financial after allegations that the company failed to safeguard personal data. Goal Financial allowed two employees to access the personal information of about 7,000 customers and take the information to a competing firm between 2005 and 2006, and the company allowed an employee to sell a hard drive containing the unencrypted personal...Original article here...
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