LONDON–Banking giant HSBC has issued a warning that some of its U.S. customers may have had their personal data compromised in a breach, although it said to date it has seen no signs of fraud.
HSBC, which is the world’s seventh-largest bank, said the breach appears to involve U.S.-based customers only at this point, and that the compromise occurred between Oct. 4-14. Once the breach was spotted, it said in a statement it “suspended online access to prevent further unauthorized entry" to affected accounts.”
According to HSBC, the potentially breached information is pretty comprehensive, and includes full names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth and account numbers, in addition to account types, account balances, transaction history, payee account information and statement history where available.
HSBC said as many as 14,000 customers may have been affected, about 1% of its 1.4-million U.S. customers. It is offering the affected customers a year of credit monitoring and identity theft protection service at no cost.
The bank has not said specifically how its systems were breached.