Bank of New York Mellon in data breach: Connecticut

BOSTON (Reuters) - The Bank of New York Mellon Corp was involved in a data breach affecting millions of customers nationwide, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said on Wednesday.

The bank lost the information, including social security numbers and bank account information, in February, he added.

"A storage company for a New York bank lost an unencrypted backup tape containing social security numbers and bank account information belonging to as many as hundreds of thousands of Connecticut consumers and personal information of millions more nationwide," he said in a statement.

(Reporting by Jason Szep, editing by Richard Chang)