Stanford Credit Union informed 18,000 members this week that their personal information was accidentally sent to another member. The incident, which was outlined in a June 9 letter, occurred on April 30.
The data was a list of members who were pre-approved for loans. An employee sent the list to a longtime credit union member who had the same first name as the staff person who should have received the list. The employee was communicating with the member at the time regarding a different matter.
The credit union delayed notifying members while weighing whether doing so would unduly concern them, since the information was never read. But "trust and transparency are important to us," said President and CEO Joan Opp.
