Some presents just aren’t the kind you want. You buy a new product get it home only to find it’s busted. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. found that out the hard way recently after they purchased National City Bank. Turns out that prior to the acquisition there was a data breach affecting customers. Much like herpes, it was an unpleasant surprise.
From Cincinnati.com:
Bank officials were made aware of the data breach earlier this week, but Solomon would not say how many customers’ accounts have been compromised or how much money was stolen.
PNC Financial, which is based in Pittsburgh, said some customer debit cards were compromised shortly before the company acquired Cleveland-based National City Corp. in December 2008.
This naturally begs the question, why did it take so long to discover? I’d be interested to read more on this story as the details emerge.
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UPDATE: Here is more on this story from Channel 9 WCPO
Some Charged More than $1,000
Other customers were hit harder.
* Cynthia Suchoski e-mailed to say “there was a charge made yesterday at Macy’s in Costa Mesa, California for $1,300” on her old National City debit card. She was not in California.
* Jonathan Vasiladis told me his old debit card was hit for $4,000 in bogus charges, many of them happening in England.
* And another, who asked that we not use his name, e-mailed to say his PNC account “is more than one $1,000 overdrawn,” again, after unauthorized charges in California.
* A fourth viewer reports another series of unauthorized charges, supposedly from March of Dimes.