CFPB Employee Breaches Data of 250,000 Consumers in Major Incident
A former employee of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sent confidential consumer data on approximately 256,000 people to their personal email account, in what the agency described as a "major incident." The data included personally identifiable information, such as names and transaction-specific account numbers, of consumers of seven institutions. The CFPB says the employee is no longer with the agency, and the matter has been referred to the Office of the Inspector General. The agency has found no evidence that the staffer further disseminated the confidential data after it was sent to their personal email account.
