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 major competitors. Even Californians have the good sense *not* to patronize a bank that allows theft of sensitive consumer data to do unnoticed and unaddressed.

As for the "laudable" behavior exhibited by Wells, sure, see above comment on that count, however since Wells is one of the biggest purveyors of buying/selling/trading its customers data, I find this wonderful "laudable" behavior completely nullified by its continuance to treat consumer data as a commodity without the specific persmission from the customer to do so.



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