Posted on 04/20/2023 4:28:20 PM PDT by aimhigh
A data breach by an employee at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is sending shock waves through the financial services industry, raising far more questions than answers about how an employee was able to obtain information on more than 250,000 consumers and dozens of companies.
The agency, whose mission is to go after bad behavior at financial institutions, said the employee is "no longer employed by the CFPB." Lawmakers were told of the data breach on March 21, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The CFPB said it had identified "a confidential-information and privacy incident" in which a now-former CFPB employee was found to have sent confidential CFPB records on 256,000 consumers at a single institution to their personal email account.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanbanker.com ...
FedZilla — the best and brightest.
Isn’t the CFPB Sen Fauxahaunta’s baby?
More unelected bureaucrats here to protect your safety
Firing ain’t enough. Criminal charges post haste.
That poor guy in Nigeria finally got his money for his family. By draining the accounts of millions of people.
I wonder if this was a “trans” person?
Banks revealed he swiped all the pens and their chains along with leftover calendars and refrigerator magnets. Plus millions of dollars from accounts.
Anyone who has ever worked for the govt knows that there are a few competent people in a sea of stupid, incompetent porn surfers. It’s surprising that anything gets done.
This is just the data breach they know about.
Hunter Biden works everywhere.
The CFPB was illegally setup and should be abolished.
Anyone who has ever worked for the govt knows that there are a few competent people in a sea of stupid, incompetent porn surfers. It’s surprising that anything gets done.
This is just the data breach they know about.
It’s likely cheaper to us for them to do nothing but surf porn. Imagine if they all worked as hard as we do in the private sector. Imagine the damage they could do. And the data breach, you’re likely right. I think everything has been leaked or sold to hostile foreign powers.
More likely trying to figure out how to steal the SSN's of American citizens for nefarious purposes.
Rd later.
Ironport.
Costs a few bucks, but your employees are not stealing data.
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