Western Alliance Financial institution (WAB) has disclosed {that a} data breach at its third-party vendor’s safe file switch software program has compromised private data for almost 22,000 prospects.
In a letter to probably affected prospects, the Arizona-based regional financial institution–working over 50 branches with $80 billion in property–disclosed that forensic evaluation indicated unauthorized entry to monetary information, social security numbers, and different delicate data.
“We reviewed the contents of the information acquired by the third get together to find out in the event that they contained any private data,” the financial institution mentioned within the letter. “On February 21, 2025, we decided that the information contained a few of your private data, together with your identify and Social Safety quantity. The information could have additionally contained your date of beginning, monetary account quantity, driver’s license quantity, tax identification quantity, and/or passport, in case you supplied it to Western Alliance.”
