[New] Hometrust Mortgage Reports Breach

On Nov. 23, 2022, HomeTrust Mortgage reported a data breach with the Attorney General of Montana after hackers carried out a successful ransomware attack against the company, compromising consumer data stored on the company’s computer system, according to jdsupra.com.

According to HomeTrust, which has its corporate offices in Houston and branch locations across Texas, the breach resulted in the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of certain customers being compromised. Recently, HomeTrust Mortgage sent out data breach letters to all affected parties, informing them of the incident and what they can do to protect themselves from identity theft and other frauds.

The available information regarding the Home Mortgage of

America breach comes from the company’s filing with the Attorney General of Montana. According to this source, on July 15, 2022, HomeTrust Mortgage was made aware of suspicious activity within its computer system. In response, the company began working with third-party data security experts to better understand the incident and whether any consumer information was compromised as a result.

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