{"id":610,"date":"2022-04-06T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/?p=610"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:40:22","slug":"block-admits-data-breach-involving-cash-app-data-accessed-by-former-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/2022\/04\/06\/block-admits-data-breach-involving-cash-app-data-accessed-by-former-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlock Admits Data Breach Involving Cash App Data Accessed by Former Employee\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The breach is said to have occurred last year on December 10, 2021, with the downloaded reports including customers\u2019 full names as well as their brokerage account numbers, and in some cases, brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings. It was unclear how many users were affected by the breach, but Block \u2014 which said it only recently discovered the incident \u2014 said it was contacting about 8.2 million current and former customers as part of its response efforts. While a formal investigation is ongoing, the financial platform also said it has notified law enforcement and \u201ccontinues to review and strengthen administrative and technical safeguards to protect its customers\u2019 information.\u201d \u201cThe company currently does not believe this event will have a material impact on its business, operations or financial performance,\u201d Bullock added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/04\/block-admits-data-breach-involving-cash.html\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/04\/block-admits-data-breach-involving-cash.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Xu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The breach is said to have occurred last year on December 10, 2021, with the downloaded reports including customers\u2019 full names as well as their brokerage account numbers, and in some cases, brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings. It was unclear how many users were affected by the breach, but Block \u2014 which said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-instructor","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}