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First American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
Legal // May 30, 2019

First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back as 2003, is being sued in a class-action lawsuit. The complaint was filed with the United States District Court for the Central District...

App Defect May Have Exposed First American Financial Customers’ Data
Security & Fraud // May 26, 2019

First American Financial, the real estate title insurance company, may have provided unauthorized access to the financial information of its customers. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing First American Financial, the firm said a design defect in one of its applications...

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SEC Probing First American Financial’s Data Breach

August 13, 2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating a security breach at First American Financial Corporation that saw the exposure of upwards of 885 million financial records and personal files related to mortgages dating back to 2003. KrebsOnSecurity reported the breach in May. Included in the exposed data are bank account numbers, statements, tax […]

First American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach

May 30, 2019
First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back as 2003, is being sued in a class-action...

App Defect May Have Exposed First American Financial Customers’ Data

May 26, 2019
First American Financial, the real estate title insurance company, may have provided unauthorized access to the financial information of its customers. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal...