As sophisticated scams targeting the life savings of Americans create headlines across the US, the industry’s lowest-paid employees keep getting caught selling sensitive customer information out the back door – emerging as a critical area of weakness in banks’ risk controls. — Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash
The new staffer was supposed to help Toronto-Dominion Bank spot money laundering from an outpost in New York.
She instead used her access to bank data to distribute customer details to a criminal network on Telegram, according to prosecutors in Manhattan. Local detectives who searched her phone allegedly found images of 255 cheques belonging to customers, along with other personal information on almost 70 others.
