{"id":1214131,"date":"2023-12-22T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1214131"},"modified":"2023-12-22T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T14:51:41","slug":"first-american-discloses-a-cybersecurity-incident-a-few-years-after-its-major-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1214131","title":{"rendered":"First American discloses a &#039;cybersecurity incident,&#039; a few years after its major leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First American, a real estate and mortgage financial firm, experienced a &#8220;cybersecurity incident&#8221; impacting operations, the company posted on <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstamupdate.com\/\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.firstamupdate.com\/\">its website<\/a> on Thursday. The company has not released any details about what happened, but as of the time of publication, its website remained down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First American has experienced a cybersecurity incident,&#8221; says a statement on its website. &#8220;In response, we have taken certain systems offline and are working to return to normal business operations as soon as possible.&#8221; First American did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, First American came under fire for <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-05-25-first-american-leak.html\">its handling of sensitive information<\/a>. It <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dfs.ny.gov\/reports_and_publications\/press_releases\/pr202311281#:~:text=In%20May%202019%2C%20First%20American,of%20individuals%20in%20unrelated%20transactions.\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.dfs.ny.gov\/reports_and_publications\/press_releases\/pr202311281#:~:text=In%20May%202019%2C%20First%20American,of%20individuals%20in%20unrelated%20transactions.\">paid a $1 million fine<\/a> to the New York State Department of Financial Services after a vulnerability in its proprietary &#8220;EaglePro&#8221; application left data like social security numbers and bank information exposed.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/first-american-discloses-a-cybersecurity-incident-a-few-years-after-its-major-leak-145141277.html?src=rss&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Engadget &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/first-american-discloses-a-cybersecurity-incident-a-few-years-after-its-major-leak-145141277.html?src=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First American discloses a &#8216;cybersecurity incident,&#8217; a few years after its major leak<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First American, a real estate and mortgage financial firm, experienced a &#8220;cybersecurity incident&#8221; impacting operations, the company posted on its website on Thursday. The company has not released any details about what happened, but as of the time of publication, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1214131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1214131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}