Intuit warns of credit card risk

Intuit, a provider of financial software and services, is warning 47,000 customers that their credit card data may be at risk after computers were stolen from a company office.

According to a letter sent to customers last week and a notice recently posted on Intuit's Web site, the theft happened in early June at the Omaha, Neb., office of ItsDeductible, a software maker acquired by Intuit last year to be part of its TurboTax tax preparation business.

Thieves broke into the office the weekend of June 11, according to the notice, and took several items, including a PC with password-protected customer data.

Inuit spokeswoman Julie Miller said the records on the PC contain personal data, including credit card details, for about 47,000 customers who purchased ItsDeductible products between December 2002 and November 2003.

Miller said Inuit has notified all affected customers and has heard no reports of identity theft nor seen any other sign that the customer data was accessed. "All indications have been it was really about the hardware value of what was stolen," she said. "There's no indication they know what they had."

Intuit is urging affected customers to contact their banks to have credit cards canceled or monitored for suspicious activity. The company is also offering three months of free credit and personal information monitoring service through MyFico, a credit check specialist.

Stolen PCs have become an increasingly serious security concern, with lifted computers potentially exposing data ranging from government secrets to medical records.

[jeaninej]

If everyone was notified...?

How come, as a purchaser of the ItsDeductible add-on for TurboTax 2003, this is the first I've heard about the theft?

I have not be contacted by Intuit in anyway, shape or form about the possibility of my credit card information being compromised.

They are going to hear about this.

Only affected customers notified

Only those customers who are affected by this incident were notified - purchases made prior to Nov. 03. If you purchased the software with TurboTax last year, your data is not at risk.

From the makers of SPYWARE comes the latest in consumer damage...

INTU are the most corrupt, degenerate software company on the planet. (Well, save for MSFT, SCOX, CA, etc). But they are bad. I will never forget how they "decided" TurboTax needs to mess with your (delicate!) disk partitions, and then stay resident in memory ALL YEAR ROUND, just to make sure that you, the paying customer, were not stealing from them.

When you come across egomaniacle / sociopathic corporations like this, you pretty much deserve having your personal credit and financial life ruined if you choose to do business with them. Instant karma kickback anyone?