A California-based mortgage lender is urging its clients to take precautionary measures following a security incident involving the company.
In a statement, Plaza Home Mortgage says that an unauthorized party managed to access an employee’s computer on or around February 17th, which allowed threat actors to get hold of the firm’s information systems.
Plaza says it immediately took action to shut down the attack after the security controls alerted about the intrusion.
The investigation conducted following the incident reveals that the breach may have exposed customers’ personal information, including names, addresses, social security numbers, birth dates, driver’s licenses, government identifications and information related to mortgage loan applications and servicing.
“The personal information that was accessed was not the same for each person and does not always include all the above data elements.”
According to the data breach notice posted by the office of the Maine Attorney General, the incident was discovered on March 3rd and compromised the data of 137,976 people.
Plaza is providing affected individuals with free 12 months of credit monitoring services and identity theft services.
“[W]e recommend that you closely monitor your financial accounts and if you see any unauthorized activity, you should promptly contact your financial institution. To further protect yourself from the possibility of identity theft, we recommend that you immediately place a fraud alert on your credit files.”
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