Cash App could have been impacted by a data breach, according to a filing this week through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by parent company Block Inc.On Monday, Block announced it had learned a former employee downloaded "certain reports of its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC" in December without permission.TIKTOK SHARES MORE OF YOUR DATA THAN ANY OTHER APP, AND A STUDY SAYS IT'S NOT CLEAR WHERE IT GOESThat data, according to the filing, did not include usernames, passwords, Social Security numbers, birthdays, addresses, or bank account information.
It did, however, include full names and brokerage account numbers which the company said are used to identify a user's "stock activity on Cash App Investing."Cash App icon displayed on a phone screen and Cash App logo displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo (Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) For some customers, the downloaded data also included "brokerage portfolio value, brokerage portfolio holdings and/or stock trading activity for one trading day."After Block was made aware of the data breach, the company said it, along with an outside counsel, launched an investigation into the matter with the help of a leading forensics firm.The only users affected, according to the filing, are the 8.2 million past and present Cash App users who use Cash App Investing.
The company said it is working to contact those users to provide them with information regarding the incident.A hand on the keyboard is seen with binary code displayed on a laptop screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 17, 2021.