Human error strikes again. Claude Solnik reports:
Bethpage Federal Credit Union on Tuesday said personal information of 86,000 consumer VISA debit card accounts had been exposed on the Internet.
The company said an employee on May 3 posted data on a file transfer protocol site that the employee believed to be secure. But Bethpage Federal later found the data could be accessed through search engines.
It removed the data on June 3 – one month later – once it became aware of the breach and sent out emails on Monday informing those affected.
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Data posted on the site for consumer VISA debit cards included names, addresses, birth dates, card expiration dates as well as checking and savings account numbers.
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