2016 — HSBC Holdings: We recently became aware of an incident in which…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
We recently became aware of an incident in which HSBC's mortgage servicing provider sent encrypted and password pretected disks, which inadvertently included some of your personal information, to an unauthorized commercial third party (a firm that performs financial analytics). The information was sent between December 7, 2015 and December 8, 2015. Upon review of some of the data, the third party realized the disks included more information than requested and returned all the disks to the mort
Root cause
Unintended disclosure