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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

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In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] was leaking more than 800 million documents -- many containing sensitive financial data ...
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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

| | Data breaches, First American Financial Corp., New York State Department of Financial Services, Reuters, The Coming Storm
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to ...
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SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.

SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.

| | Ben Shoval, Data breaches, First American Financial Corp., The Coming Storm, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885 million ...
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NY Investigates Exposure of 885 Million Mortgage Documents

| | A Little Sunshine, Data breaches, First American Financial Corp., New York Department of Financial Services, New York Times, Stacy Cowley
New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] as the first test of the state's strict new cybersecurity regulation. That measure, ...
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First American Leaks BIG: 885M Customer Files Exposed

First American Leaks BIG: 885M Customer Files Exposed

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First American Financial is the latest huge corporation being cavalier with your data. Its website has been serving up title documents to anyone who can count ...
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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

| | Ben Shoval, Data breaches, First American Financial Corp.
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified ...
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