One of the largest U.S. title insurers may have allowed unauthorized access to more than 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003.
First American Financial Corp., one of the largest U.S. title insurers, may have allowed unauthorized access to more than 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, according to a security researcher., a cybersecurity expert. Digitized records including “bank-account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts and driver’s license images were available without authentication to anyone with a web browser,” he wrote.
Ben Shoval, a real estate developer in Washington state, said he noticed the vulnerability after getting a link from First American earlier this week. Krebs wrote in his article that he notified First American of the issue. He also noted that he didn’t have any information on whether fraudsters knew about the weakness or if any documents had been mass-harvested.
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