Flagstar Bank in Michigan has notified more than 1.5 million customers that their information was accessed by threat actors in December 2021. The attack was not discovered until June 2022, at which point the bank immediately rolled out their incident response plan and began notifying customers of the breach. Beyond full names and social security numbers, the extent of the stolen information has not been released; however, the bank has already notified those affected. Along with changing passwords, the bank is also providing two years of free credit monitoring for all those affected. The attackers have not been identified, and there are no indications at the time of writing that any of the information has been used for malicious purposes. This is the second incident Flagstar Bank has suffered in 2021; the bank was breached by the Clop ransomware gang in January 2021 exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Flagstar’s Accellion FTA servers.
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