Data of about 57,000 Bank of America customers leaked
Information on about 57,000 Bank of America Corporation customers was leaked in a 2023 hack of an external IT service provider. The bank warned customers of the data leak, and it was suggested that the leaked data may have included some customers' US Social Security numbers.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Bank of America
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information on about 57,000 customers
- Cause / method
- Hack of an external IT service provider
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- Bank of America warned of a customer data leak stemming from a hack of an outside supplier.
- The scale of the data leak was reported as about 57,000 accounts.
- It was suggested that Social Security numbers of thousands of customers in North Carolina may have been leaked.
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