2013 — Citigroup: Third big data breach from Citigroup, 150K records
Technical writeup
Third big data breach from Citigroup.The personal information of 150,000 consumers who went into bankruptcy between 2007 and 2011 – including their social security numbers – were exposed after Citi failed to properly redact court records before they were put on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system.
Root cause
Accidentally published