The top 10 corporations for customer ID theft
Great article from Clark Howard today listing the top 10 corporations for ID theft:
The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology analyzed corporate America to see which companies have the highest incidence of ID theft. The No. 1 company? Bank of America.
BoA is the nation’s second largest bank. (If you look at the numbers based on total customer base, BoA then actually comes in second behind HSBC). AT&T occupies the second slot, followed by Sprint (No. 3), JPMorgan Chase (No. 4) and Capital One (No. 5).
Think about it: 3 of the first 5 are banks, which is understandable. But why are two phone companies way up there? The reason is because they do a credit check when you apply for phone service. That opens you up as a potential target when they get your info.
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Tags: at&t, bank of america, berkeley center for law and technology, capital one, Clark Howard, customer id theft, hsbc, jpmorgan chase, sprint
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July 23rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I’m using a fake name because I work for one of the telephone companies. But I wanted to say that I’m not surprised we’re on this list at all. We hire crack-ass part-time employees to work in our company owned stores, and those employees have access to every single piece of information on our entire customer database. Our third-party dealers don’t have access to the information after it’s entered in the database, but prior to the sale, they do since they usually ask for a form to be filled out. Either way, it’s the employees stealing identities or selling the info to their gang-ring that they got the job to get info for, not a system being hacked into.