Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says former employee sent confidential info on 256,000 people to personal email

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) confirmed a data breach on Thursday involving the personal information of “roughly 256,000 consumer accounts at a single institution.” An official at the CFPB told Recorded Future News that they discovered that a former employee sent confidential records to their personal email account in 14 different emails. The employee

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