More than 24 million mortgage loan documents were exposed online after the vendor OpticsML, who works with banks, had their server exposed due to a security lapse; the data exposed included a decade’s worth of loan and mortgage agreements, repayment schedules and other highly sensitive financial and tax documents; TechCrunch and independent security researcher Bob Diachenko found the lapse through financial data and analytics company Ascension, who used the vendor; the documents trace back to divisions at Citi, HSBC, Wells Fargo, Capital One and Department of Housing and Urban Development. Source.
