The Wall Street Journal reported that a consumer financial protection bureau (CFPB) employee sent records containing private information to a personal email address that included confidential supervisory information from 45 other financial institutions as well as personal information on roughly 256,000 customers at one financial institution.
The agency, which was already under siege from Republican lawmakers, presented the breach to Congress as a catastrophic incident.
The emails contained customer information from seven businesses, although the majority of the personal data was linked to customers at one unnamed institution, a CFPB spokeswoman told the Journal.
The incident was discovered by the agency for the first time in February, and it was revealed to lawmakers on March 21, according to the Journal. The reason the employee, who was later fired, forwarded the emails to a personal account was not disclosed by the CFPB.
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