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CFPB Says Staffer Sent 250,000 Consumers’ Data to Personal Account
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WASHINGTON—A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee forwarded to a personal email account confidential information on thousands of consumers and dozens of financial firms, in what the agency has described to U.S. lawmakers as a major incident.
The employee, who no longer works at the CFPB, made an unauthorized transfer of records containing personal information on approximately 256,000 consumers at one institution, as well as confidential supervisory information on 45 institutions, a CFPB spokesman said. There is no evidence the records were shared beyond the former employee’s personal email account, the spokesman said.
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