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Data breach at debt collector affects more than 3.2 million people

Data breach at debt collector affects more than 3.2 million people

Debt collection agency Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) recently said that a February data breach it disclosed in April has affected more people than previously known, with the latest victim tally reaching 3,226,631 people.

The disclosure came in the form of a notification to the Maine attorney general last week. The company, headquartered in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, made two other such disclosures about the same incident, one earlier in May and the initial disclosure in April….

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