Rhino
06-09-2008, 01:53 PM
Woman claims Comcast violated privacy
By Jason Cato
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, June 6, 2008
A South Fayette woman so fed up with her cable television provider that she offered a body part as payment is suing the company after a copy of her check, including personal and financial information, wound up in cyberspace.
Krista Cooney and her husband, Chad, filed a federal lawsuit this week in Pittsburgh against Comcast Corp., claiming an employee of the cable giant e-mailed a copy of the check to people outside the company.
Unhappy with how much she was being charged, Cooney made out the check for "My Right Arm and Zero Dollars" and in the memo wrote for "Robbing Customers Blind."
"Some people do have a budget ya know," Cooney wrote on the payment slip accompanying her check.
Cooney's check contained her signature, address, telephone number and bank account number.
...The Cooneys learned of the e-mail Aug. 20, when a Colorado resident who was victimized by identity theft received a copy of the e-mail and called the couple to alert them....http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_571313.html
By Jason Cato
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, June 6, 2008
A South Fayette woman so fed up with her cable television provider that she offered a body part as payment is suing the company after a copy of her check, including personal and financial information, wound up in cyberspace.
Krista Cooney and her husband, Chad, filed a federal lawsuit this week in Pittsburgh against Comcast Corp., claiming an employee of the cable giant e-mailed a copy of the check to people outside the company.
Unhappy with how much she was being charged, Cooney made out the check for "My Right Arm and Zero Dollars" and in the memo wrote for "Robbing Customers Blind."
"Some people do have a budget ya know," Cooney wrote on the payment slip accompanying her check.
Cooney's check contained her signature, address, telephone number and bank account number.
...The Cooneys learned of the e-mail Aug. 20, when a Colorado resident who was victimized by identity theft received a copy of the e-mail and called the couple to alert them....http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_571313.html