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It seems a day can not be without a company announces it has lost or had customer data stolen. TRANS UNION Credit Agency is now the Parade of identity theft.

TRANS UNION Credit Agency

In late summer, TRANS UNION discovered that the consumer than 3600 records had been stolen from a regional sales office in California. The company said the data was on a separate desktop computer. The company believes the computer has been stolen as part of the burglary, not a deliberate intent to steal consumer data.

There are more than a few serious problems with TRANS UNION position and action. First, consumer data should not be on a desktop computer on a desk. More importantly, what to do, the data on a computer in a regional sales office? TRANS UNION is supposedly looking into these issues.

Offensive, TRANS UNION has suggested that the stolen data is not a big deal because the computer is password protected. If TRANS UNION really thinks a password-protected desktop computer, to someone from the data to see, it should lose their right to do business. A hacker would smile to know that

Larger problems

3600 consumer records is really a small problem when the big picture of consumer privacy. It recognizes, however, indicate a bigger problem.

TRANS UNION is one of the three major credit reporting agencies Experian and Equifax are the other two. It seems to me that the databases of the three companies is the Holy Grail of identity theft. What happens if someone in one of these systems?

What happens if an employee with access to the data gets tried? AOL in mind. An AOL employee was recently sentenced for the sale of AOL's member list spammers. How much do you think of a criminal organization would pay for a copy of the consumer credit reporting agency records in a database?

A lot.

Richard A. Chapo is a San Diego business lawyer with http://www.sandiegobusinesslawfirm.com - San Diego Corporate Law Firm in San Diego, California, USA.