In a letter responding to inquiries from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on steps taken to ensure data security, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney confirmed hundreds of confirmed breaches of consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII), and hundreds more suspected breaches.
“I do not expect you, as an outside observer of the bureau’s activities, to be aware of the bureau’s other data security risks,” Mulvaney wrote to Warren. Read on for more from Mulvaney's letter, including recent breaches in the Consumer Complaint Database dating to November.
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