ABN AMRO U.S. Mortgage Unit Loses Data Tape

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12 September 2006 at 10:20 a.m. ET

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By Belinda Goldsmith, Reuters

A U.S. mortgage firm owned by Dutch bank ABN AMRO Bank NV said on Friday it had suspended physical tape deliveries after a computer tape with data of 2 million residential mortgage customers was lost in transit, the latest in a string of U.S. data security scares.

ABN AMRO Mortgage Group Inc., a unit of ABN AMRO’s LaSalle Bank, said data on the tape, which went missing in November included residential mortgage customer names, account information, payment histories and social security numbers.

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