SunTrust Employee May Have Stolen Information About 1.5 Million Clients

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Source: The Wall Street Journal.

SunTrust Employee May Have Stolen Information About 1.5 Million Clients

Names, addresses, phone numbers and account balances may have been exposed

By Austen Hufford

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April 20, 2018 9:39 a.m. ET

SunTrust Banks, Inc. said Friday that an employee may have stolen information about 1.5 million customers, in the latest example of company-held private data being improperly shared.

SunTrust said Friday that the employee, who no longer works at the bank, attempted to share information on about 1.5 million of the bank’s clients and provide it to a “criminal third-party.”

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SunTrust said it believes that the exposed information includes names, addresses, phone numbers and account balances. The bank said clients’ Social Security numbers, account numbers, passwords and driver’s license information weren’t impacted, it added.
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SunTrust said that it is notifying customers whose data may have been affected and that it will provide free identity-protection services to all consumer-banking clients.