Australian Bank Sends 10,000 Customers' Data to Wrong Email Address for Dumbest Possible Reason

guest · Jun 2, 2018

Australian Bank Sends 10,000 Customers' Data to Wrong Email Address for Dumbest Possible Reason
June 1, 2018
https://gizmodo.com/australian-bank-sends-10-000-customers-data-to-wrong-em-1826482530

But perhaps the most egregiously idiotic way to release confidential information is to send emails to the wrong domain name. That’s exactly what the largest bank in Australia did—more than 600 times.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has admitted that staff mistakenly sent 651 emails containing the data of 10,000 customers to “cba.com,” a domain name that belonged to a US-based cybersecurity company, rather than the bank’s “cba.com.au” domain name.

To solve the issue, the company reportedly started blocking internal emails sent to the .com domain in January of last year and bought the domain outright in April of last year. And while no customer information was allegedly compromised, this is a screwup of baffling proportions that could have certainly gone much worse.
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mirimir · Jun 2, 2018

What's bizarre is that employees are typing in so many internal email addresses.

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