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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
View Article  Steve Maich in the blogosphere
Another former National Post colleague of mine, Steve Maich, has a blog:
"Money is what you’ll read about here, and in my column in Maclean’s magazine. This weblog and the column are both called “All Business”, but if you think of business stories as stultifying, dull grey lumps of ...   more »
View Article  CIBC works on damage control in wake of fax foul-up
My colleague Sinclair Stewart and I teamed up for this story in today's Globe and Mail:
Top officials at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce huddled over the weekend in an effort to stem the fallout from an embarrassing glitch in which the confidential information of hundreds of customers was ...   more »
View Article  CIBC bans faxes; privacy commissioner investigates; more leaks
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has taken the remarkable step of banning the use of fax machines for any transmission of customer information in the wake of revelations that confidential data for hundreds of its customers had been faxed to a scrap yard operator in West Virginia.
The Toronto-based ...   more »
View Article  CIBC sends confidential customer data to West Virginia scrapyard
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has been faxing confidential information about hundreds of its customers to a scrap yard operator in West Virginia for more than three years, and he says he can't get them to stop.
Wade Peer says he has been overwhelmed since 2001 by internal CIBC ...   more »
View Article  A FAQ on the CIBC privacy breach
I've received a pile of e-mail on the CIBC privacy breach, most of it from CIBC customers. Here's my answers to the Frequently Asked Questions in those messages:

Is there a class action suit being launched?
I don't know. If you have a lawyer or know of one, ask ...   more »
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