A rogue employee tore a 2.9 million-record-sized hole into his (now former!) employer’s hide, according to an advisory posted on Thursday by Canada’s Desjardins Group, the largest federation of credit unions in North America.
Desjardins has 7 million members. The leak, carried out by the since-fired employee, affected 2.7 million individuals and 173,000 businesses – about 41% of its clientele. The records were disclosed to unnamed people without authorization.
This was no breach, Desjardins said. It didn’t come under cyberattack, and its computer systems are just fine. This was the work of just one jerk. Or, as Desjardins described him, “an ill-intentioned employee who acted illegally and betrayed the trust of their employer.”
That person was fired.
The leaked information reportedly included names, birth dates, social insurance numbers, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, as well as information on banking habits – all of it illegally transferred to a third party.
Beware the fraudsters
That’s all good as gold to fraudsters. Quebec’s regulator of financial institutions, the Autorités des marchés financiers (AMF), ...
Read the rest of this post on Naked Security.
The post Desjardins’ employee from hell spills 2.9m records appeared first on Lisa Vaas.
