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News Burst: Egg still making security blunders

Will Knight ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 22 Nov 1999 12:38 GMT

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Online bank Egg is still mailing out credit card numbers and other personal information to its customers via regular, unencrypted email.

A number of concerned Egg customers have contacted ZDNet complaining that their credit card details are still being exposed to possible illicit monitoring or interception. The Internet bank last week admitted that it had been sending out this information insecurely but repeatedly claimed that this was an isolated incident and promised it had stopped.

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