Certegy Check Services Inc., Fidelity National Information Services

A worker at one of the company's subsidiaries (Certegy Check Services, Inc.) stole customer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information. UPDATE(8/27/07) : The company first estimated that about 2.3 million records were affected but quickly boosted that number to 8.5 million in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. A California law firm has filed a class-action suit charging Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and one of its subsidiaries with negligence in connection with a data breach. UPDATE(11/23/07) : A former database analyst at Certegy Check Services Inc., has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud and conspiracy charges in connection with the theft of data. UPDATE(7/7/08) :A man has been sentenced to four years and nine months in jail and fined US $3.2 million for his part in the theft of consumer records from Certegy Check Services. UPDATE(7/7/08) : A new settlement provides that all class members whose personal or financial information was stolen can get compensated up to $20,000 for certain unreimbursed identity theft losses caused by the data theft. The losses covered could have occurred from Aug. 24, 1998, to Dec. 31, 2010. www.datasettlement.com