The notification by Bank of America described the nature of the incident as “External system breach (hacking)" that illegally accessed information of 57,028 persons stealing data such as “Name or other personal identifier in combination with: Social Security Number”. Bank of America’s systems were not compromised, it added.
Top American lender Bank of America has named Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), the US subsidiary of Indian software services giant Infosys, as the source of a data leak owing to a ransomware attack suffered by over 57,000 of its users in November.
A hacker has leaked thousands of data from Facebook marketplace users on a hacking forum. A successful hack on a Meta contractor has led to a data leak of 200,000 Facebook Marketplace user data on a hacking forum, Bleeping Computer reports.
Bank of America has warned its customers and notified authorities of the data breach. Bank of America has officially notified customers and authorities that one of its vendors, Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), suffered a data breach last year, exposing several services of the banking giant's data, thus putting its customer's personally identifiable information (PII) at risk.