Real Count: NY Bank Lost Data on 12 Million Customers
Do you remember the Bank of New York Mellon’s lost backup tapes? Initially, it was said they contained private records on 4.2 million customers. Yet according to new info from DarkReading, the count has just rose to 12 million.
“When we announced [the lost tapes] back in May, we said we were going to do a top to bottom review across the company and go back and review it again,” a Bank of New York Mellon spokesperson said. “When we discovered [there was] this additional data that may have non-public personal data on it, we brought in a third party” to help investigate it, the spokesperson said.
The unencrypted tapes were lost by a courier earlier this year and according to data released in May, those whose private data was stored on them where clients of BNY Mellon Shareholder Services. The newly discovered clients that have been affected by the breach are currently being notified by the bank.
