{"id":209114,"date":"2025-03-19T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/western-alliance-bank-notifies-21899-customers-of-data-breach"},"modified":"2025-03-19T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:15:35","slug":"western-alliance-bank-notifies-21899-customers-of-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/western-alliance-bank-notifies-21899-customers-of-data-breach","title":{"rendered":"Western Alliance Bank notifies 21,899 customers of data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/western-alliance-bank-notifies-21899-customers-of-data-breach.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arizona-based Western Alliance Bank is notifying nearly 22,000 customers their personal information was stolen in October after a third-party vendor\u2019s secure file transfer software was breached.<\/p>\n<p>Western Alliance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, a leading U.S. banking company with over $80 billion in assets.<\/p>\n<p>The bank first revealed in a February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1212545\/000121254525000090\/wal-20241231.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEC filing<\/a> that the attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the third-party software (disclosed by the vendor on October 27, 2024) to hack a limited number of Western Alliance systems and exfiltrate files stored on the compromised devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona-based Western Alliance Bank is notifying nearly 22,000 customers their personal information was stolen in October after a third-party vendor\u2019s secure file transfer software was breached. Western Alliance is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, a leading U.S. banking company with over $80 billion in assets. The bank first revealed in a February [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}