In 2017, Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies, said the information for more than 145 million consumers — including Social Security numbers — was stolen.[SAN FRANCISCO] First American Financial Corp, a provider of title insurance, said Friday that it had fixed a vulnerability in its website that exposed 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back 16 years.
First American, based in Santa Ana, California, said in a statement Friday afternoon that it addressed the security gap after it was notified by Mr Krebs."We are currently evaluating what effect, if any, this had on the security of customer information," the company's statement said."We will have no further comment until our internal review is completed.
Equifax said this month that it had spent US$1.35 billion so far responding to its breach, including US$690 million that it recently earmarked to cover some of its anticipated legal settlements.