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BofA Breach: ‘A Big, Scary Story’

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Dissent

Tracy Kitten reports:

An internal breach at U.S. financial giant Bank of America shows how some corporations do not focus enough attention on mitigating internal fraud risks.

According to news reports, a BofA employee with access to accountholder information allegedly leaked personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, bank account numbers, driver’s license numbers, birth dates, e-mail addresses, family names, PINs and account balances to a ring of criminals. With that information, the fraudsters reportedly hijacked e-mail addresses, cell phone numbers and possibly more, keeping consumers in the dark about new accounts and checks that had been ordered in their names.

Some 300 BofA customers in California and other Western states have reportedly had their accounts hit, and 95 suspects linked to the breach were arrested by the Secret Service in Feb.

BofA says it detected the fraud a year ago, but only recently began notifying affected customers of the breach.

Read more on BankInfoSecurity.com

Update: It’s come to my attention that David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times originally broke this story and has more details on it.

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