GE Money Says Tape with Customer Data Missing

A computer tape containing personal data of 650,000 customers of about 230 retailers including J.C. Penney Co. is missing, credit card issuer GE Money said. Richard Jones, a spokesman for the General Electric Co. unit, said a backup computer tape being stored at a facility operated by Iron Mountain Inc., an information protection and storage company, had been lost.

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