A former US Mortgage employee is suing the lender for failing to protect his personal data in a hack last year, which the company has said it took swift action to address. Processing Content Richard Bernich sued the Long Island-based company in federal court for negligence, the latest data breach suit against a mortgage player […]
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Anywhere Real State suffered a data breach in August that affected 17,429, the company notified impacted customers. Processing Content A notorious ransomware and extortion gang known as Clop gained access to the company’s Oracle E-Business Suite environment and viewed or copied sensitive customer data, according to a notice with the Office of the Maine Attorney
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SitusAMC is gearing up for a legal battle over the fallout of its data breach last fall, as eight class action complaints have been consolidated in federal court. Processing Content The cases quickly piled up after the industry vendor revealed in November that it suffered a cybersecurity incident. The company has emphasized no encryption nor
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Union Home Mortgage says it paid a ransomware gang to delete sensitive data they stole in a cyberattack last year. Processing Content The nonbank lender made the admission last month in federal court, part of a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit from borrowers affected by the hack. The company also described how the
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Wholesale lender Nations Direct Mortgage will settle a class action suit resulting from a 2023 cyberattack that led to the leak of personal data belonging to more than 83,000 consumers. The Henderson, Nevada-based business first began notifying victims and regulators in the months following a one-day cyber incident took place in late December 2023. Following
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Borrowers are slamming yet another mortgage lender with class action lawsuits after it revealed a data breach last month. Troy, Michigan-based Towne Mortgage did not say in a public notice how many of its customers were impacted in a June incident, in which a hacker may have copied data from its network. The attack compromised
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A Texas federal judge overseeing the data breach suit against Mr. Cooper refused to dismiss the case, as was previously requested by the mortgage servicer. In a recently published order, U.S. District Judge David Godbey, wrote that the court finds the plaintiffs have standing to bring some claims against Mr. Cooper, though others have been
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Lenders sprinting to adopt artificial intelligence solutions could be opening the door to increasingly damaging cybersecurity incidents. Nearly all types of companies who suffered hacks involving their AI models or applications in the past year lacked proper access controls, according to IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach report. Although just 13% of the 600
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Data breaches are quietly plaguing more lenders as their impacted customers continue to seek recourse via class action lawsuits. Virginia-based McLean Mortgage is facing four federal complaints after it revealed that the personal identifiable information of 30,453 of its customers was compromised in an October incident. The company, which disclosed the results of an investigation
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