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PLANO, Texas - Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C.
Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer
tape went missing. GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney
and many other retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information
includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people.

The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing
last October. It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc.,
a data storage company, and was never checked out but can't be found either,
said Richard C. Jones, a spokesman for GE Money, part of General Electric
Capital Corp.



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Media, PA  19063
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