An “administrative mistake” has led to a US bank warning thousands of its customers about the potential risk their information poses.
Bluestone Bank has filed a complaint with the Office of the Maine attorney general claiming that an error made in February resulted in the unauthorised disclosure of the personal information of 7,605 clients.
According to the Bridgewater, Massachusetts-headquartered bank, personal and confidential information belonging to its customers was inadvertently sent to an unintended recipient on February 28th of this year.
Bluestone Bank has said that it has taken several steps to reduce the potential risk to its customers.
In order to address this incident, we have reinforced proper data handling protocols and mandated retraining in the management of appropriate customer data. We have also evaluated our protocols and controls and improved them to make sure this does not happen again .”
Bluestone Bank offers its customers the opportunity to join an identity monitoring service at no cost for a period of one year and half.
As a precaution, customers can also choose to close and reopen their accounts.
Bluestone Bank’s total assets were $1.5 billion as of November 2024.
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