London-based business loans provider, Funding Circle suffered from a data breach incident that exposed 6,000 social security numbers of American clients.
The exposed information includes Security, credit scores, and business loan histories of clients.
They investigated the incident and secured its systems and databases.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/funding-circle-error-exposes-6000-ssns-of-american-clients/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/funding-circle
"id": "fun94329922",
"linkid": "funding-circle",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "05/2017",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 6000,
'industry': 'Finance',
'location': 'London',
'name': 'Funding Circle',
'type': 'Business Loans Provider'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 6000,
'personally_identifiable_information': ['Social Security '
'Numbers'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Social Security Numbers',
'Credit Scores',
'Business Loan Histories']},
'description': 'London-based business loans provider, Funding Circle suffered '
'from a data breach incident that exposed 6,000 social '
'security numbers of American clients. The exposed information '
'includes Security, credit scores, and business loan histories '
'of clients. They investigated the incident and secured its '
'systems and databases.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Social Security Numbers',
'Credit Scores',
'Business Loan Histories']},
'response': {'containment_measures': ['Secured its systems and databases']},
'title': 'Funding Circle Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}