A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee was fired after sending confidential consumer data on roughly 256,000 people to their personal email account in what the agency described as a “major…
that bureau officials became aware of the potentially inappropriate use of a personal email account on Feb. 14, and the agency notified lawmakers about the incident on March 21.“The CFPB takes data privacy very seriously, and this unauthorized transfer of personal and confidential data is completely unacceptable,” a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement provided to The Post.
“All CFPB employees are trained in their obligations under Bureau regulations and Federal law to safeguard confidential or personal information. We have referred the matter to the Office of the Inspector General, and we are taking appropriate action to address this incident,” the spokesperson added.
The CFPB says it has found no evidence that indicates that the staffer further disseminated the confidential data after it was sent to their personal email account. But the former employee has refused to provide evidence to the agency that proves material has been deleted.“This breach raises concerns with how the CFPB safeguards consumers’ personally identifiable information,” Rep. Patrick McHenry , chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
Rep. Bill Huizenga , the chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for the House Committee on Financial Services,on Tuesday with concerns that the effects of the breach “could be widespread and injurious.” “Many questions remain unanswered,” Huizenga wrote. “To better understand the mitigation and remediation efforts, the scale of the breach, as well as efforts made to give the appropriate notifications, please provide a briefing to Committee staff as soon as possible but no later than April 25, 2023.”
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