A storage company for a New York bank lost an unencrypted backup tape containing Social Security numbers and bank account information belonging to as many as hundreds of thousands of People’s United Bank of Bridgeport consumers and personal information of millions more nationwide.
At risk are depositors and investors of People’s United Bank, which gave Bank of New York Mellon the information so it could offer those consumers an investment opportunity.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today wrote Bank of New York Mellon, which lost the information in February, demanding that it provide affected consumers with credit monitoring and other identity theft protections, as well as a full account of how the loss occurred and other information.
