On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them to forge checks.
Frost Bank announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images.
The bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., its staff discovered an unauthorized access to its systems containing images of checks.
Attackers compromised a third-party lockbox software program, in this way they were able to access the images of checks stored electronically in the database.
“In March 2018, Frost detected unauthorized access into a third-party lockbox software program that allowed unauthorized users to view and copy images of checks stored electronically in the image archive.” reads thesecurity advisory published by the company.
“The identified incident did not impact other Frost systems. We have stopped the unauthorized access, and have reported the incident to and are cooperating with law-enforcement authorities.”
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