2008 — TransUnion: Credit profiles of as many as 400 Americans have…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
Credit profiles of as many as 400 Americans have been altered by two employees of Mumbai, India-based
Intelenet Global Services, an outsourcing company. The two arrested Intelenet employees had
been accessing and altering data of individuals in the datafiles of the credit bureau TransUnion since August 2005. The bank account statements of the two men revealed that money was being deposited
from an international source for the past few months.
Root cause
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