http://www.thelocal.de/national/20081220-16255.html The Local 20 Dec 08 The uproar over another suspected case of stolen personal data was resolved Friday when police determined it was in fact the result of a hijacked Christmas cake. The mystery began in early December when two sub-contractors for a package delivery company pinched a "Stollen," the traditional German cake, that a company in Stuttgart wanted to send to Uwe Vorkötter, editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper. To hide the theft, the two couriers, aged 27 and 35, replaced the cake with another package, which was being shipped by a company that handles sensitive computer data to the regional Berlin bank LBB, police said. When the newspaper got the details of banking transactions of thousands of LBB clients, it notified prosecutors in Frankfurt and broke the story in what appeared to be another case of waylaid personal data in Germany. The police investigation into the missing data lasted over a week, until the two employees gave themselves up Friday. [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Mon Dec 22 2008 - 01:28:38 PST
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