Wells Fargo accidentally leaked thousands of sensitive documents of 50,000 clients to a former financial adviser who subpoenaed the bank as part of a defamation lawsuit against a bank employee. The New York Times reported on Friday (21 July) that Wells Fargo’s lawyer inadvertently sent 1.4GB worth of files to former Wells Fargo employee Gary Sinderbrand’s lawyer in a CD that contained troves of spreadsheets with customers’ names, Social Security numbers, financial details such as the size of their investment portfolios and fees charged by the bank.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times
