Nearly 256K impacted by CFPB data breach

Nearly 256,000 consumer accounts at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had their confidential information exposed in a data breach involving a former employee who had sent such data in 14 different emails to their personal email account, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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