Organization Overview: Western Union

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The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU) is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Its North American headquarters is in Englewood, Colorado, United States, and its international marketing and commercial services headquarters are in Montvale, New Jersey. Until it discontinued the service, Western Union was the best known US company in the business of exchanging telegrams. Western Union has a number of divisions, with products such as person-to-person money transfer, money orders, and commercial services. As of May 27, 2010, the company has more than 410,000 Western Union agent locations in over 240 countries and territories. Reported revenues top US$5 billion annually. In 1851, the New York & Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was organized...

Freebase Details on Western Union

RevenueDate
$4,470,200,000.00 US$ 2006-12-31
Operating IncomeDate
$1,414,900,000.00 US$ 2006-12-31
Market CapitalizationDate
$18,000,000,000.00 US$ 2007-12-31
Board MembersTitleFromTo
Christina A Gold 2006
Betsy Holden
Linda Fayne Levinson 2006
Dinyar S. Devitre 2006-08-28
Jack Greenberg Chairman 2006-09

MAP OF ORGANIZATION HEADQUARTERS

ASSOCIATED INCIDENTS

ID: 7: 15,700 credit card or debit card numbers possibly copied

  • Date: 2000-11-14
  • Records Lost: 15,700
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: Western Union

ID: 731: Credit card information and names of over 20,000 in hacked database

  • Date: 2007-07-17
  • Records Lost: 20,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: Western Union

ID: 1351: Laptop lost during shipping contained names, addresses and SSN

  • Date: 2006-10-03
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Unknown
  • Submitted by: kirniki
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: Western Union

ID: 1532: Stolen back-up data tapes containing personal information about socal security number, name, address, email address and loan contract number

  • Date: 2007-01-30
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: osf1
  • Location: CA, US
  • Organizations: Western Union, Paymap, Inc

ID: 3946: Computer with dozens of customers’ data somehow ended up at Chemung County Transfer Station

  • Date: 2006-11-29
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Unknown
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: Western Union

ID: 3964: Receipts and stubs with names, addresses, account numbers, telephone numbers and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers and birth dates found behind a building

  • Date: 2009-01-07
  • Records Lost: Unknown
  • Source: Inside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: Russellville AR, US
  • Organizations: Western Union, Four Seasons Market

STOCK CHARTS

Incident ID: 731 Reported On: 2007-07-17

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Incident ID: 1532 Reported On: 2007-01-30

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Incident ID: 1351 Reported On: 2006-10-03

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Name: Western Union

Stock symbol: WU

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