CFPB employee sent hundreds of thousands of consumers' data to personal email account
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The bureau found personally identifiable information relating to customers of seven institutions that had been forwarded by a staffer, who is no longer employed at the CFPB.
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The bureau found personally identifiable information relating to customers of seven institutions that had been forwarded by a staffer, who is no longer employed at the CFPB.
An employee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent confidential data about hundreds of thousands of consumer accounts to their personal email, the agency told CNN on Thursday.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) disclosed that a former employee of theirs forwarded the confidential records of 256,000 consumers to their personal email account.
The employee, who no longer works at the CFPB, made an unauthorized transfer of records containing personal information on approximately 256,000 consumers at one institution, as well as confidential s...
A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee was fired after sending confidential consumer data on roughly 256,000 people to their personal email account in what the agency described as a “major…