The Wells Fargo Example

The Wells Fargo Example
Mark Rasch, 2003-12-01

Companies should protect consumer data better than Wells Fargo did, but in cleaning up its laptop data spill the bank blazed a trail worth following.

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The Wells Fargo Example 2003-12-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

I am glad someone sees what Wells Fargo did as a good example. I think that people should know about the bad examples though. I am anonymous because this information could cost my job.

The contractor in question worked for more than one institution, and information from more than one was on the...

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The Wells Fargo Example 2003-12-08
Roger

Anonymous,
I sympathise with your concern about the repercussions from these unethical (well, criminal, actually) companies, and can hardly ask that you risk your job. But if you indeed have specific information about this, please consider informing the Californian Office of Privacy Protection....

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The Wells Fargo Example 2003-12-03
Robert Campbell

Examples of good and bad practice can be drawn from this incident, and I for one do think that Wells Fargo's attempts to mitigate the affects of their contractor's ommissions are laudable. On the other hand we should told what they are doing to prevent such incidents happening again too.
As for oth...

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Laudable & Laughable at the same time 2003-12-09
Anonymous

Let's call a spade a spade here people and quit swinging from Wells' collective corporate nuts. The *only* reason they acted as quickly as they did was simply because to do so otherwise, would have inflicted a whole heap of BAD p-r on the company opening the door to losing some major accounts to ma...

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The Wells Fargo Example 2003-12-11
A Victim (1 replies)

As one of the people possibly compromised by the incident, I can tell you that although Wells started right, their efforts were only half-hearted. The Credit protection service was for ONE YEAR only, although my credit, ssn, etc has been compromised for life. Wells didnt seem to remember that it w...

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Re: The Wells Fargo Example 2008-02-06
Anonymous

My credit was compromised as well, through Costco. I have called Wells Fargo numerous times to get answers and they are extremely evasive. I spoke to a supervisor wanting to get answers to what is happening and I admit I was very upset, but I actually heard her chuckle with laughter in the backgroun...

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