First American Financial exposed data in millions of mortgage documents

[icecream-guy]

885 million recoreds

The records exposed by the website included:
Social Security numbers
Mortgage and tax records
Bank account numbers and statements
Wire transaction receipts
Driver's license images


https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/24/first-american-financial-may-have-exposed-personal-data-in-mortgages/1228113001/

[Dieselboy]

See this all too often lately... There's enough info there to have a malicious actor produce those documents to a bank or credit card company to get loans, or worse. And then how do you prove in a few years when debt collectors turn up, that it was not you...

[deanwebb]

Sad thing is, most of that data now is being used to correlate the data that already exists. Welcome to the dark data lake.

[icecream-guy]

Sad thing is, most of that data now is being used to correlate the data that already exists. Welcome to the dark data lake.

No you got me worried that one could take two different databases with different information and some common field, that one could join the databases based on some common field and obtain PII, not that that probably have PII already. but even more detail about my life as a Star Citizen.

[deanwebb]

^ Exactly what's going on. And it would also do stuff to see if compromised accounts are still in use or if a person has new accounts, and so forth. These newer breaches essentially true-up the data they already have.