Financial institution of America says efforts to find delicate paperwork containing private info on an undisclosed variety of prospects have failed.
The North Carolina-based financial institution says it’s unable to get well the paperwork, which had been misplaced in transit and “resulted within the disclosure” of non-public info.
“In line with our information, the data concerned on this incident was associated to your financial savings bonds and included your first and final title, handle, telephone quantity, Social Safety quantity, and account quantity…
We perceive how upsetting this may be and sincerely apologize for this incident and any issues or inconvenience it could trigger. We’re notifying you so we are able to work collectively to guard your private and account info.”
The second-largest US financial institution by whole property says it’s taking numerous measures to guard its prospects’ delicate knowledge, and it’ll let affected prospects know in the event that they discover any suspicious exercise.
“We’ll work with you to resolve unauthorized transactions in your Financial institution of America accounts associated to this incident if reported in a well timed method.”
The lender additionally says it’s providing affected prospects a two-year membership to an identification theft safety service.
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