Guaranteed Rate, Inc.

Guaranteed Rate, Inc.

The Washington Office of the Attorney General reported a data breach involving Guaranteed Rate, Inc. on January 12, 2018. The breach, which occurred between June 9 and October 2, 2017, involved email phishing attacks that compromised personal information of 2,545 Washington residents, including Social Security numbers and financial account information. Guaranteed Rate is offering affected individuals two years of free credit and identity monitoring services.

Source: https://www.atg.wa.gov/data-breach-notifications | https://data.wa.gov/resource/sb4j-ca4h.json?id=9762

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/raustin-mortgage-services

"id": "rau046072425",
"linkid": "raustin-mortgage-services",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "6/2017",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 2545,
                        'industry': 'Financial Services',
                        'location': 'Washington',
                        'name': 'Guaranteed Rate, Inc.',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Phishing',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 2545,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['Social Security '
                                                         'numbers'],
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Social Security numbers',
                                              'financial account information']},
 'date_detected': '2018-01-12',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2018-01-12',
 'description': 'The Washington Office of the Attorney General reported a data '
                'breach involving Guaranteed Rate, Inc. on January 12, 2018. '
                'The breach, which occurred between June 9 and October 2, '
                '2017, involved email phishing attacks that compromised '
                'personal information of 2,545 Washington residents, including '
                'Social Security numbers and financial account information. '
                'Guaranteed Rate is offering affected individuals two years of '
                'free credit and identity monitoring services.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Social Security numbers',
                                 'financial account information']},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2018-01-12',
                 'source': 'Washington Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Offering two years of free credit and '
                                       'identity monitoring services']},
 'title': 'Guaranteed Rate, Inc. Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}
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