Cash App confirms data breach affecting millions of users

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Block, the financial services and digital payments company formerly known as Square, has announced that Cash App suffered a data breach last December.

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Block submitted a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this Monday acknowledging the breach.

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The filing reveals that a former employee accessed reports containing US customer information.

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This occurred on December 10th, 2021, after the employee had left the company.

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Block explained that the employee “had regular access to these reports as part of their past job responsibilities.”

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The problem is that they once again accessed these highly sensitive reports after their employment ended.

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Block confirmed that the reports contained full names and brokerage account numbers for US customers.

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The brokerage account numbers are unique IDs associated with a customer’s stock activity on Cash App Investing.

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