U.S. Bank Exposes Customers to Identity Theft
Personal information of an unidentified number of U.S. Bank customers have been stolen from an employee’s car in Covington, KY. The information was stored in a briefcase that was left in the backseat of an unoccupied car.
Bank spokesman Steve Dale said the names, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of a “very small” number of customers were in the briefcase that was stolen in Covington from the employee’s car.
He would not divulge the number of customers, the exact location of the theft or the date of the theft.
The bank is offering to pay up to a year’s subscription to Privacy Guard to help customers monitor their credit reports. The bank is also helping the customers call the major credit bureaus to place fraud alerts on their files.
Source: The Cincinnati Post Thanks Patricia for the news tip!
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