Financial services firm Lincoln National has begun notifying as many as 1.2 million customers after discovering that a policy of shared passwords, established a decade ago, may have exposed their confidential data, PCWorld reports. According to a letter posted to the New Hampshire Department of Justice Web site, an anonymous source provided the agency with a shared username/password combination that gave Lincoln National employees access to customer files. Lincoln National says it is voluntarily notifying its customers even though it does not believe the situation constitutes a data breach under New Hampshire state law.
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