Over 17,000 US citizens’ Social Security numbers (SSNs) were made public after a Happy State Bank (HSB) employee’s email account was allegedly breached by a cyberattack.
A Texas-based financial company called HSB alerted customers to a business email compromise (BEC) that put the personal information of thousands of customers at danger.
The business reported that threat actors might have gained access to customer names or other personal identifiers associated with SSNs in a notification to the Maine Attorney General’s Office. It’s possible that more than 17,000 clients were exposed.
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