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AccountingWEB.com - NewsCitibank apologizes after exposing 600,000 Social Security numbers
Read any good envelopes lately? If you did and you have criminal intent, you might have just won the identity-theft lottery.
Citibank representatives call it a processing error, which doesn’t sound too serious. But for more than half a million Citibank customers who received mail from the credit card company with their Social Security number printed on the outside of the envelope…it was more than a little disturbing.
Here’s what happened
Basketball and income tax: An unlikely pair? Not necessarily
What does it take to get spectators in the seats at a New Jersey Nets basketball game? Evidently the game itself is not enough enticement. With the worst record in the NBA, 6-53, and the worst attendance, promoters for the Nets are trying to hit people where they live. Once they gave free tickets to unemployed fans, along with career advice to those who wanted it. The latest promotion is to give away free state tax preparation by well-known tax professional Roni Deutch.
Hiring outlook good for accounting pros
At a time of high unemployment and low hopes, jobs in the accounting and auditing fields are expected to grow.
Charles Rangel steps aside as House Ways and Means chairman
Bowing to pressure from Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, agreed to step down “temporarily,” after a House ethics committee admonished him for accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean.
Interesting vs. interested ? advice from a prospect
By Edi Osborne
