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Money transference giant MoneyGram has put back its chief administrator less than a month after confirming that hacker slip ream of customer ’ personal information and transaction track record in a data breach .
In a statement Monday , MoneyGram say it appointed Anthony Soohoo as the company ’s chief executive with immediate effect . Soohoo replaces Alex Holmes , who joined MoneyGram in 2009 and served as its chief fiscal officer , then chief operating officer , before being appointed chief operating officer and chairman in 2016 .
Holmes will remain on as an consultant to the party ’s add-in of director , the company ’s statement said .
When reached by TechCrunch , MoneyGram representative Sydney Schoolfield said : “ This annunciation is not related to the late cyber issue . The leadership transition is the result of a several - months long process led by the MoneyGram Board of Directors . ”
Holmes ’ remotion comes in the same month that the company confirmed it had lost an unspecified amount of personal customer information during its September cyberattack . The caller has yet to draw the nature of the cyberattack , whichsparked in a workweek - long outage of its money transportation service . The U.K. ’s data protection authority confirmed it hadreceived a data breach reportfrom MoneyGram travel along the cyberattack .
MoneyGrampreviously saidthe stolen data let in names , phone numbers , postal and email addresses , dates of nativity , and national identification number . MoneyGram say the data breach also included a “ circumscribed act ” of Social Security numbers and government identification documents , including number one wood ’s license , utility handbill , and depository financial institution account numbers .
MoneyGram also articulate the steal data includes information about customer transactions , such as date and amounts of money transferee , and selective information about reprehensible investigations related to some customer account .
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MoneyGram allege it serve more than 50 million people in over 200 country and dominion each twelvemonth . Holmes made $ 6.7 million in executive director recompense during 2021 , pera company file with regulator . When asked , MoneyGram did not render a more recent bod for Holmes ’ executive director recompense .
