Lower reveals data breach impacting 86,000 customers
Lower reveals data breach impacting 86,000 customers
Abstract
Mortgage fintech Lower, in notices to state attorneys general offices last month, said personally identifiable information including some Social Security numbers for 85,958 customers was compromised. The investigation later found suspicious activity related to some employee email accounts between Sept. 2 and Dec. 16.Lower didn't disclose the type of cyberattack or the name of the culprit, only describing it in a notice in Maine as an "External system breach." The company offered impacted customers 12 months of complimentary Experian fraud consultation and credit monitoring services. Maine Capital Group last week also disclosed to state AG offices a data breach last December involving the Social Security and driver's license numbers of 876 customers, 760 of them Maine residents. In April, Chesterfield, Missouri-based Gershman Investment Corp. revealed a cyberattack last September affecting 52,737 customers. Lender American Financial Services that month also disclosed a data breach which impacted 216,645 customers in December. Servicers Lakeview Loan Servicing and Pingora Loan Servicing, both subsidiaries of Florida-based Bayview Asset Management, suffered cyberattacks compromising the personally identifiable information of a combined millions of customers last fall. Maryland-based Certified Title Corporation in March also revealed 10,624 of its customers were affected by last summer's industry-rattling Cloudstar ransomware attack.