That doesn’t seem right to me. Wise moved away from EBT a year or so ago. They may not be done moving away from them but my Wise USD balance is not with EBT anymore and they confirmed by email I was not affected by the breach.
“Right now, we know it is possible some of your personal information may have been breached. We do not have further details to share, but we encourage you to stay vigilant in monitoring your financial activity.
Please be advised that Wise remains secure, as is your account. This breach did not impact our systems. However, keep an eye on any suspicious activity and make sure to report it.”
There’s been a data breach at Evolve Bank & Trust.
Evolve Bank & Trust is a regulated bank that we worked with from 2020 until 2023 to provide your old USD account details. They’ve recently been affected by a data breach and some of your personal information may have been involved.
This personal information does not include copies of any of the identification documents you’ve shared with us — these have not been shared with Evolve Bank & Trust at any point.
Your Wise account is safe We no longer work with Evolve Bank & Trust, and have already strengthened our security measures. We’ve also started a thorough investigation into this data breach and can confirm that it has not impacted our systems. This means:
• your Wise account credentials, including your password, are safe, and you can use your account as normal
• you can continue to use your USD account details — these are no longer connected to Evolve Bank & Trust
• you can continue to use any Wise cards you may have as they were not impacted by this issue – your card number and PIN are safe
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/02/evolve-bank-sent-a-cease-a...
Journalists are the only ones at this point giving us any transparency into the whole situation.
I'd except there to be a fairly strong obligation (probably on both parties) under GDPR to ensure that EBT destroyed that data.
I'll be following up