Email hack at US bank regulator exposes sensitive information
Emails at a US Treasury Department bank regulator were hacked, exposing sensitive bank-related information. The agency disclosed the hack, and the specific scale of the damage and the timing of the attack have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Sensitive bank-related information
- Cause / method
- Email hack
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- A US financial regulator said sensitive bank-related information had been exposed in an email hack.
- Disclosures followed of a major hack at the Treasury Department's bank regulator.
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