

A database manager at Fidelity National Information Services, a leading financial processing company, stole 2.3. million consumer records and sold them to a data broker, who then sold them to direct marketing companies, according to an announcement from Fidelity on Tuesday.

The Fidelity website has details on what was stolen:

"The misappropriated information included names, addresses and telephone numbers as well as, in many cases, dates of birth and bank account or credit card information. Approximately 2.3

million records are believed to be at issue, with approximately 2.2

million containing bank account information and 99,000 containing credit card information. The company is still investigating the time period over which the misappropriations occurred."

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