Fintech company Marquis is notifying dozens of U.S. banks and credit unions that customer data was stolen in a cyberattack earlier this yr.
Details of the cyberattack emerged this week after Marquis filed data breach reports with several US states confirming that the August 14 incident was a ransomware attack.
Texas-based Marquis is a marketing and compliance provider that permits banks and other financial institutions to gather and visualize all of their customer data in a single place. The company matters greater than 700 bank and credit union customers on his website. As a result, Marquis has access to and stores large amounts of information from residential customers within the United States.
At least 400,000 people have been affected by the info breach up to now, in accordance with legally required disclosures within the states of Iowa, Maine, Texas, Massachusetts and New Hampshire that TechCrunch reviewed.
Texas has the most important variety of state residents to have data stolen within the breach up to now, affecting at the least 354,000 people.
said Marquis in his announcement According to the Maine Attorney General, Maine State Credit Union bank customers were liable for the vast majority of data breach reports.
The number of individuals affected by the info breach is anticipated to extend as more data breach reports are available in from other states.
Marquis said the hackers stole customer names, dates of birth, mailing addresses and financial information resembling checking account, debit and bank card numbers. Marquis said the hackers also stole customers’ Social Security numbers.
According to its most up-to-date communications, Marquis blamed the ransomware attack on hackers who exploited a vulnerability in its SonicWall firewall. The vulnerability was considered a zero-day vulnerability, meaning neither SonicWall nor its customers were aware of the vulnerability before it was maliciously exploited by hackers.
Marquis didn’t attribute the ransomware attack to any specific group, however the Akira ransomware gang was reportedly behind the mass hacks targeting SonicWall customers on the time.
TechCrunch asked Marquis if it knew the overall number of individuals affected by the breach and whether Marquis received any communications from the hackers or whether the corporate paid a ransom. However, we received no response on the time of publication.
