MONTPELIER, Vt. -- The Vermont State Employees CU said unencrypted computer tapes containing personal data and transaction records were inadvertently thrown into a landfill.
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The credit union has notified 85,000 members whose information may have been put at risk and offered them a year's free service for credit monitoring and data protection.
However, Steven Post, president of the $620 million credit union said an investigation has turned up no evidence of theft, or that the data has fallen into the wrong hands. He said it appears the data tapes are buried in a landfill and cannot be retrieved.
The credit union is working with regulators and law enforcement to address the incident, he said.
