CFPB Employee Transfers 250,000 Consumers' Data to Personal Email Account in Major Breach

A former employee of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sent confidential records containing personally identifiable information of hundreds of thousands of consumers and several financial institutions to their personal email account. The CFPB found that the person forwarded information relating to customers of seven institutions and accessed information related to about 256,000 consumer accounts at a single institution. The incident has been referred to the bureau's internal watchdog and is considered "completely unacceptable."