Montreal police searched 2 locations and arrested one individual in a case involving the theft of data on 3.4 million customers from Quebec and Ontario. The data is said not to have contained any financial information but did include names, addresses, phone numbers and the Bell services subscribed to. There were about 170,000 customers with unlisted and unpublished phone numbers amongst the data stolen and Bell is offering to change the numbers of anyone who requests it. Bell spokesman Mark Langton told CBCNews.ca that "There's no indication that this data has been used improperly," The arrested apparently was not an employee of Bell so the question remains, how was the data acquired? Once again I'm glad that I'm not a customer of the Bell family of companies...
