LA Firemen’s Credit Union notifies 28,000 of potential breach
The 28,000 members of the Los Angeles Firemen’s Credit Union are in danger of having their private information exposed. The CU has recently notified them of a potential data breach generated by a file transfer. They believe that a small percentage of the members might be affected by an improper file move during the CU’s change of location.
Data that might have been compromised includes members names, addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, social security numbers and other identifiers. Mentioning their state of the art technology and protocols for member validation, the CU tried to reassure their members and diminish the impact. The truth of the matter is that there is enough information to compromise other accounts or memberships the affected individuals might have that do not have the very same technology.
The now very common measure to ensure free credit monitoring for two years is in place for the LA Firemen’s Credit Union members, along with a nice promice of practice review for future file transfers. Let’s all hope they don’t need it!
