Mortgage company Mr. Cooper Group has finally 'fessed up to losing the personal info of 14,690,284 people.
In today's SB Blogwatch, we leave him hangin'.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.
The lender is one of the largest servicers in the United States, servicing loans of $937 billion.
The exposed data puts impacted individuals at risk of phishing, scams, and social engineering attacks, while bank fraud and identity theft are also possible.
Victims] are urged to remain vigilant against unsolicited communications and enroll in the offered 24-month identity protection service.
The information that has been exposed to cybercriminals includes:Full name,Home address,Phone number,Social security number,Date of birth,Bank account number.
The company is the largest nonbank mortgage servicer in the U.S, providing servicing and originations for homeowners throughout the country.
The data accessed may have been from:Anyone whose mortgage was acquired or serviced by Nationstar Mortgage or Centex Home Equity.
Anyone whose mortgage is or was serviced by a sister brand of Mr. Cooper.
Anyone who Mr. Cooper may be or previously was the servicing partner of your mortgage company.
If you previously applied for a home loan with Mr. Cooper.
We take our role as a mortgage company very seriously, and there is nothing more important to us than maintaining our customers' trust.
I want you to know how sorry I am for any concern or frustration this may have caused.
Making the homeownership journey as smooth as possible is our top priority, and we intend to make this right for our customers.
The credit monitoring from the last data breach that happened to a service not safeguarding my information properly was just about to expire.
s. At this rate it would probably make sense for the various financial companies just to pay a federally mandated bond/insurance fee to a program that offers free credit monitoring service to everyone with financial accounts in the US. At least they could then claim they did in fact protect their users adequately.
When we got an email saying our mortgage was moved over to Mr. Cooper, I thought it was a scam.
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This Cyber News was published on securityboulevard.com. Publication date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:43:04 +0000