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Almost 17 million LoanDepot customer had sensitive personal selective information , including Social Security numbers , stolenin a January ransomware attack , the company has confirmed .
The loanword and mortgage giant company said in adata breach notice filed with Maine ’s lawyer general ’s officethat the stolen LoanDepot client data let in names , date of birth , email and postal addresses , fiscal account statement number , and earphone numbers . The stolen datum also includes Social Security numbers , which LoanDepot collected from customers .
The numeral of affected LoanDepot customer rose from 16.6 million asinitially give away to Union regulatorslast month , which did not say what specific customer datum had been steal .
LoanDepot was hit by a cyberattack around January 4 that it described at the time as involve the “ encryption of data , ” or a ransomware approach . It ’s not known if LoanDepot pay a ransom , nor would a company spokesperson say when previously asked by TechCrunch .
The cyberattack go out LoanDepot ’s millions of customersunable to make payment or access their on-line accountsin the week that followed .
LoanDepot was one of several loan and mortgage companies place by malicious hack in recent months .
Mortgage and loan giant star Mr. Cooper saidhackers stole the personal information of more than 14 million customersduring an October cyberattack , costing the company at least $ 25 million in additional cost . week later , in November , one of the largest U.S. home insurance providers , Fidelity National Financial , washit by a ransomware attack , knock the fellowship offline for over a week .
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LoanDepot saidin its modish regulatory filingthat the cyberattack will ding the company ’s fiscal first quarter earnings to the tune of between $ 12 to $ 17 million .
This story was to begin with published on January 22 , 2024 , and update on February 26 , 2024 , with novel information about what customer information was stolen . Updated on February 27 , 2024 with new earnings encroachment .
Do you work at LoanDepot and bed more about the incident ? you could contact Zack Whittaker on Signal and WhatsApp at +1 646 - 755 - 8849 , orby email . You also can adjoin us viaSecureDrop .
LoanDepot hit by suspected ransomware onrush
