Authorities launched a criminal investigation on an American Express employee that is suspected to accessed to cardholder information and potentially abused for fraud.
Exposed information includes full name, physical and/or billing address, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and the credit card number.
The suspect is no longer working for the financial organization.
On September 30th, 2019, the financial institution began sending out data breach notifications to the impacted, the notice informed them that the former employee potentially used the data for fraudulent activities, including identity theft and financial frauds.
