“The CFPB alleged that US Bank accessed consumers credit reports to open checking and savings accounts, credit cards and lines of credit without their permission. Employees were encouraged to do so, in order to meet the bank’s goals of selling multiple products to each customer with the bank.”
Our cable/internet company around here stopped going after fraud/non-paying accounts since the more accounts they show open did better for their stocks. This came from an ex-coworker who went to the cable company as a security/investigator guy. Probably happens in more places than we know.