Fidelity National Information Services Inc. said last week that a senior database administrator responsible for defining and enforcing data access rights at one of its subsidiaries sold the personal information of about 2.3million consumers to a data broker. The broker in turn sold a subset of the data to “a limited number” of direct marketing companies, Fidelity National said.

The Jacksonville, Fla.-based company, which offers data proc­essing and outsourcing services to financial institutions and other businesses, added that the stolen data included names, addresses, birth dates, and bank account and credit card information.

For now, at least, it appears that the companies that bought the information have used it mainly to send marketing solicitations to the affected individuals, according to Fidelity National. “We have no reason to believe that the theft resulted in any subsequent fraudulent activity,” said Renz Nichols, president of the company’s Certegy Check Services Inc. unit.

The database administrator has since been fired, and Fidelity National has filed a civil complaint in a court in St. Petersburg, Fla., against him and the companies that received the stolen data, seeking its return. Fidelity National said it also is “encouraging immediate prosecution” of the DBA by law enforcement authorities.

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