Mountain Pacific Bank has been made aware of a data breach at the State Auditor’s Office (SAO) involving data that may have been stolen from their third-party vendor. While Mountain Pacific Bank systems have not been breached or hacked, the data with the SAO includes personal information for more than a million individuals who filed unemployment claims in 2020, as well as other information from some state agencies and local governments. In all, roughly 1.6 million claims are likely impacted.

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