Flagstar notified customers that hackers accessed Social Security numbers, home addresses, full names and phone numbers in a late-January data breach, Vice reports. The data was hacked as part of the Accellion breach. The Michigan-based bank has not said how many were affected, but victims appear to include individuals who are no longer customers and some who never have been.
23 March 2021
Customer Social Security numbers exposed in bank data breach
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