Fidelity National Financial attack exposes data of 1.3 million customers
US title insurance and transaction services company Fidelity National Financial suffered a cyber-attack in November 2023 and shut down some systems, disrupting property transaction operations. The attacker gained access using stolen credentials, and ALPHV/BlackCat claimed the attack. The company said the attack had been contained after a week-long outage, and later confirmed that information of 1.3 million customers had been leaked.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Fidelity National Financial
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information of 1.3 million customers leaked and property transaction operations disrupted
- Cause / method
- Intrusion using stolen credentials
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- The company shut down some systems due to a cyber breach, and ALPHV/BlackCat claimed the attack.
- It emerged that the attack had paralysed property transaction operations.
- The company said the cyber-attack had been contained after a week-long outage.
- The company confirmed the leak of information of 1.3 million customers and the attacker's use of stolen credentials.
Also affected by this incident
Parent company breach exposes data of 1,316,938 LoanCare borrowers
↳ Knock-on damage from the Fidelity National Financial incident · View original incident1.3mImpact: Names, addresses, Social Security numbers and loan numbers of 1,316,938 borrowers
A breach at Fidelity National Financial, the parent company of US-based LoanCare, exposed the information of 1,316,938 LoanCare borrowers. The stolen data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and loan numbers. LoanCare notified those affected of the data breach.
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