A subsidiary of title insurance giant Fidelity National Financial reported a data breach to state regulators this week after a cyberattack in November.
LoanCare, one of the largest providers of loan subservicing services, told officials in Maine and California that 1,316,938 people had information accessed by hackers who breached Fidelity National Financial - their parent company.
The notice adds that Fidelity National Financial notified law enforcement and government agencies of the attack after beginning an investigation and hiring third-party cybersecurity experts.
Although they confirmed that the incident has been contained, they said the hackers were able to exfiltrate the data.
Victims are being offered two years of identity protection services from Kroll.
LoanCare was purchased by Fidelity National Financial in 2009 for $16.3 million.
The attack on Fidelity National Financial - which snarled hundreds of home purchases last month across the U.S. - was claimed by the AlphV/Blackcat ransomware gang.
Real estate agents, homebuyers and more were left in the lurch for days after the attack because home sales could not be finished.
Shortly after that attack, the AlphV gang's leak site was seized by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in a disruption operation that allowed them to access more than 900 public/private key pairs controlling AlphV's darknet website infrastructure.
The attack on Fidelity National Financial was part of a larger run of attacks on critical financial institutions by ransomware gangs this fall.
Last week, One of the largest mortgage loan servicers in the U.S. said the information of nearly 14.7 million people was leaked during a previously reported cyberattack in October.
Europol identifies hundreds of e-commerce platforms used in digital skimming attacks.
Jonathan has worked across the globe as a journalist since 2014.
Before moving back to New York City, he worked for news outlets in South Africa, Jordan and Cambodia.
He previously covered cybersecurity at ZDNet and TechRepublic.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:47:27 +0000