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Ask HN: Community Banks exposing apps and SSNs to me, how to proceed?

6 pointsby manavover 5 years ago
I&#x27;m not sure how this happened, but apparently my email (gmail) has been receiving notifications for unfinished applications for a group of very large ($1bil +) community banks across the US. It seems to be a problem with the sales platform (on salesforce), which emails my address with the applications with full information including SSN, phone, address. I emailed their team a week ago and didn&#x27;t receive a reply and in the meanwhile I&#x27;m receiving a fair number of emails daily.<p>Should I contact the individual banks or FDIC? How can I report this?

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duxupover 5 years ago
You could see if a local news organization would be interested.<p>Kinda curious they would email that data....ever...<p>Also just in case, change your password. It isn&#x27;t out of the realm of possibility that your email is compromised and us being used for something.