Nearly 750k had financial info, SSNs leaked in South Carolina loan company breach
Heights Finance breach of a third-party cloud platform exposed SSNs and banking data of 734,828 loan customers across 11 states.
Attackers breached a third-party cloud platform used by Heights Finance in May, exposing data on 734,828 customers, according to the company's filing with Texas regulators. Stolen data includes contact details, bank account and routing numbers, Social Security numbers, tax IDs and driver's license numbers. The breach, discovered on May 7, was limited to the cloud platform and did not affect loan management systems. No group has claimed the attack and dark web monitoring has found no evidence of the data being leaked.
- 734,828 customers affected; stolen data includes SSNs, bank account numbers, routing numbers and government IDs.
- Breach discovered May 7 in a third-party cloud platform; loan management systems were unaffected.
- Heights Finance operates more than 285 offices in 11 states under parent company Curo Management.
- No group has claimed the breach; dark web monitoring found no leaked data so far.
- Vendors
- Heights Finance
- Victims
- Heights Finance
- Organizations
- Curo Management
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Cybercriminals breached the cloud system of a debt consolidation loan company in May, stealing troves of sensitive financial information and personal data on about 750,000 customers. The company, Heights Finance, published a warning to customers last week about the data breach and told regulators in Texas on Friday that 734,828 people were affected.
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