Data Breached at Certegy

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fidelity National Information Services revealed Tuesday that a worker at its Certegy subsidiary, the biggest processor of credit union accounts, stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, credit union and bank account and other information. The employee, who was fired, sold the data to an unidentified data broker, who then sold some of it to a variety of direct marketing companies. The information has not been used for identity theft or other fraudulent uses, according to the company. About 2.2 million records stolen from Certegy contained credit union and bank information, while 99,000 contained credit card data. The stolen data contained names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and credit union, bank and credit card information. “As a result of this apparent theft, the consumers affected received marketing solicitations from the companies that bought the data. We believe that is the extent of any damage to the public,” said Renz Nichols, president of Certegy, during a conference call Tuesday. The data breach is the latest of a growing number of incidents where large volumes of personal information is being either stolen or leaked to the public.