The CFPB knew about a massive data breach for weeks before it was made public. This week, news broke that an employee at the CFPB forwarded the confidential records of about 256,000 consumers to their personal email.
This week, news broke that an employee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau forwarded the confidential records of about 256,000 consumers to their personal email, a massive data breach. The employee, who is no longer employed by the CFPB, also transferred confidential supervisory information on 45 institutions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
“The numbers are used internally by the institution, are not the consumers’ bank account numbers, and cannot be used to gain access to a consumer’s account. These two spreadsheets contained the vast majority of the impacted PII,” the spokesperson said, referring to personally identifiable information.
“The CFPB has directed the former employee to delete the emails from their personal account, certify that each email was deleted, and provide attestation once those actions were completed. The former employee has not complied with this demand,” the spokesperson said.
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