Tuesday August 12, 2:51 pm ET
By Madlen Read, AP Business Writer
A bank spokeswoman said Tuesday that MicroBilt Corp., a consumer data vendor, told Wells Fargo on July 1 that there was unusual activity on one of the bank's access codes. The activity was particularly suspicious because Wells Fargo no longer uses that particular vendor for consumer information.
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The bank is currently sending letters to the list of about 7,000 names -- which will probably end up being 5,000 once the duplicates are eliminated, Berg said -- and offering those individuals a free one-year membership to Identity Guard, an identity theft protection service.
The bank is also recommending that the individuals affected -- most of which are not Wells Fargo customers -- set up an alert with the credit bureaus and review their accounts for suspicious activity.
This breach is not the first for the San Francisco-based bank, which in 2006 experienced two separate data breach incidents.
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