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While announcing details of free identity protection for clients, a US bank revealed that data belonging to up to 1.5 million customers may have been exposed and passed on to a criminal third party.<\/p>\n
The revelation by SunTrust Bank was included in a press statement<\/a> entitled \u2018SunTrust to offer free identity protection.\u2019 The bank made the admission in the second paragraph, writing, \u201cThe company became aware of potential theft by a former employee of information from some of its contact lists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAlthough the investigation is ongoing, SunTrust is proactively notifying approximately 1.5 million clients that certain information, such as name, address, phone number and certain account balances may have been exposed,\u201d<\/em> the statement continued.<\/p>\n Data such as social security numbers, account numbers, PINs, User IDs, passwords, or driver’s license information has not been compromised by the potential breach, according to the bank.<\/p>\n The bank told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that the information allegedly stolen may have been provided to a \u201ccriminal third party,\u201d<\/em> and has been investigating it since February. It made the decision to reveal details of the leak publicly after learning there may have been attempts to print the information.<\/p>\n SunTrust chairman and CEO Bill Rogers apologised to clients in a statement, noting that security measures have since been increased. \u201cWhile we have not identified significant fraudulent activity, we will reinforce our promise to clients that they will not be held responsible for any loss on their accounts as a result,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n READ MORE: 48 million social media users\u2019 data leaked by yet another analytics company<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The new protection measure, Experian IDnotify, offers features such as identity theft insurance and \u2018dark web monitoring.\u2019<\/p>\n SunTrust has branches<\/a> in 12 southern US states and total assets<\/a> of $205 billion. It made headlines in 2015 when details emerged<\/a> of a controversial severance package requiring 100 IT workers laid off in Atlanta to be on call either by phone or in person for two years without additional pay. SunTrust removed the clause following media coverage.<\/p>\n If you like this story, share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While announcing details of free identity protection for clients, a US bank revealed that data belonging to up to 1.5 million customers may have been exposed and passed on to a criminal third party. The revelation by SunTrust Bank was included in a press statement entitled \u2018SunTrust to offer free identity protection.\u2019 The bank made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}