GE Money, which handles credit card operations for retailers, says it has misplaced a backup tape containing the personal information of some 650,000 customers of JC Penney and as many as 100 other retail businesses. The missing information, which includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people, was on a tape that was discovered missing last October. It took GE Money two months to reconstruct the missing tape and identify the people whose information was lost. The company has been notifying consumers in batches of several thousand and telling them to phone a call center set up to deal with the breach.”]
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