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BOSTON Two Massachusetts newspapers, The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, said Tuesday that slips containing the names and credit card numbers of tens of thousands of customers were accidentally delivered with bundles of papers on Sunday in Worcester.

Both papers are units of the New York Times Co.

A convenience store clerk first notified the newspapers of the security breach on Monday. It took until late Monday for officials to confirm the data were, indeed, credit and debit card numbers.



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