A former SunTrust employee may have stolen personal data regarding to 1.5 million SunTrust customers. SunTrust has stated the following data may have been accessed:Â name, address, phone number and certain account balances. They also stated that the potentially stolen contact list did not include:Â social security number, account number, PIN, User ID, password, or driver’s license information.
Due tot his breach SunTrust will provide identity protection for all current and new consumer clients. They will be providing Experian IDNotify, this includes:
- Experian 1B Credit Monitoring
- Annual Experian Credit Report
- Identify Theft Insurance with up to $1 million reimbursement for covered expenses
- Identity Restoration Assistance
- Dedicated Call Center Support
- Dark Web Monitoring
It’s not clear if the data stolen includes records on previous SunTrust customers or not. SunTrust is only providing the identity protection for existing customers, you’d hope this would be extended to previous customers as well. I suspect lots of readers have SunTrust accounts or have had them in the past due to the regular checking account bonuses they offer. We talk about this everytime a data breach happens, but unless the penalties for data breaches are increased they are going to continue to happen at an alarming rate. Read our guide on what to do in the case of a data breach here.
