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Bank of America Corp. said Friday that it lost computer tapes containing personal information on federal employees who use 1.2 million bank-issued cards to pay for expenses.The data included Social Security numbers and home addresses of workers at dozens of government agencies, possibly including U.S. senators, a bank official said. The bank could not say how many workers were involved because some hold multiple cards.The tapes were lost in December while being shipped to a backup data center.

 

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was told in a briefing that baggage handlers probably stole the data backup tapes from a commercial plane. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) was among the senators whose information was on the missing tapes.The bank's statement said a "small number" of tapes had been lost, without mentioning that those tapes contained confidential information on more than 1 million accounts.

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