The employee email accounts of LendUS were accessed by an unauthorized person at various times between February 2 to March 22, 2021.
The compromised accounts contained the attachment containing the personal information of its employees and customers including names, financial and payment card account information; medical and health insurance information.
LendUS after the complete investigation of the attack notified the impacted individuals and offered free credit monitoring services for those who requested it.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/lendusfamily
"id": "len12185522",
"linkid": "lendusfamily",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2021",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Financial Services',
'name': 'LendUS',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Email Account Access',
'customer_advisories': 'Offered free credit monitoring services',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': 'Yes',
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['personal information',
'financial information',
'payment card account '
'information',
'medical information',
'health insurance information']},
'description': 'The employee email accounts of LendUS were accessed by an '
'unauthorized person at various times between February 2 to '
'March 22, 2021. The compromised accounts contained '
'attachments with personal information of employees and '
'customers, including names, financial and payment card '
'account information, medical and health insurance '
'information.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['personal information',
'financial information',
'payment card account information',
'medical information',
'health insurance information']},
'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Email Accounts'},
'investigation_status': 'Completed',
'motivation': 'Data Theft',
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Notified impacted individuals',
'remediation_measures': ['Credit Monitoring Services']},
'threat_actor': 'Unauthorized Person',
'title': 'LendUS Email Account Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Compromised Email Accounts'}