Here is a recent article about how one bank sent private data on one customer to another person! It would have been so easy for someone to steal this guys identity because all of the info he needed to do that was on this paperwork.
**the name of the bank has been replaced with XXX because it happens to be the same bank that we used when we got hit by the counterfeit cashier's check scam, and part of our settlement with them requires us to not post their name in a negative way. If there is anyone else on the board that does know this information, please do not post it or I will have to remove it. Thank you.**
Man Finds Another's Private Data in Bank Envelope
Nobody knows more about your financial life than your bank. XXX Bank is trying to figure out how it sent confidential, personal information about one customer to another.
The controversy started when J.R. Griffin opened his monthly bank statement to find a bank application containing a variety of confidential information about somebody he's never met.
The envelope included a Social Security number, driver's license number, and federal Tax ID number. Griffin, who banks at a Plymouth branch of XXX, says he showed this mistake to bank personnel on a half dozen occasions, but says they showed little interest.
"Very cavalier, basically a shrug of the shoulders," Griffin says. "I'd say it's very unprofessional. I'm in business for myself and I know if my personal information was out there like this I'd be very upset."
KARE 11 reporter Bernie Grace made a copy of the confidential bank records and tracked down the person who they belong to.
"My account number, Social Security and drivers license number and my federal I.D. number all on one sheet of paper and it fell in the hands of some stranger. It's appalling," says St. Louis Park Businessman Joe Salato.
Griffin was also surprised the response he received when he asked bank personnel about one of his canceled checks XXX sent to a Waite Park resident.
"Their answer was pretty much 'things like this happen,'" Griffin says. "I'm not very sanguine about this."
"I don't know what to say," Slato says. "I'm kind of speechless, but I will be following up with XXX on this. And possibly an attorney."
And what does XXX have to say about all of this? Corporate Communications Director told us quote 'We don't go on camera with this type of stuff.'"
He went on to say 'We believe it's an entirely isolated case and that we apologize to the individual whose application went out to the wrong person."
And as for how one of Griffin's checks ended up in the hands of a customer from Waite Park, bank officials had no explanation for that.
Slato says he's grateful all of his private information fell into the hands of an honest person.
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