ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. financial-processing company said a worker stole 2.3 million consumer records containing bank account and credit-card information.
The data, stolen from Certegy Check Services Inc. of St. Petersburg, Fla., was not used in identity theft or other fraudulent financial activity, the company said.
The worker, William G. Sullivan, sold the information to a data broker identified as Jam Marketing, which in turn sold some of the information to direct marketing companies, said Certegy, a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla.
Sullivan, a senior-level database administrator, was fired and is now being sued, Certegy said.
UPI's attempts to locate Sullivan and Jam Marketing were not successful.
Of the 2.3 million stolen records, about 2.2 million contained bank account information and 99,000 contained credit card information, Certegy said.
It also includes people's names, addresses, phone numbers and, in many cases, birth dates.
The company is still determining when the misappropriations occurred.
Certegy said it would notify all affected consumers and had already contacted major credit-reporting agencies and credit-card companies.
It also said it believed it would be able to get the data back from the marketing companies and prevent future misuse.
