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NPR's business news starts with the latest loss of personal data.
A computer tape has gone missing and it has the personal information of about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and other retailers. GE Money, a unit of General Electric that handles credit card operations for Penney and other retailers, says this loss includes Social Security card numbers for about 150,000 people.
Since the tape went missing last October, GE Money has been notifying customers and telling them to phone a special call center. It is paying for one year of credit monitoring services for people whose Social Security numbers were on the tape.