CA C.W. ADVERTISING AGENCY LTD 2008 Physical Action (Q11045)
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A data breach risk event
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CA C.W. ADVERTISING AGENCY LTD 2008 Physical Action
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A data breach risk event
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January 2008
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A former IT executive for a Canadian marketing firm has been accused of taking a computer backup tape containing personal information of 3.2 million customers that could net as much as $10m on the black market, according to court records. Nick Belmonte, who earned $150,000 as vice president of IT for Vancouver-based C-W Agencies (http://www.c-wgroup.com/), recently ordered an employee to deliver three backup tapes to his office for copying. When the employee returned later, only two tapes were found. In addition to names and other details, the missing tape contained credit card and bank account information of more than 800,000 customers. The information in the customer library is highly confidential to the plaintiff and its clients, a C-W executive wrote in an affidavit filed in court, ac (English)
