US consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion may have been the subject of a hacking incident leading to a data breach. Threat actor who goes by the moniker “USDoD” announced the leak of a database containing sensitive Personal Identifiable Information (PII) of 58,505 customers across North and South America and Europe.
According to Cybercriminal underworld tracker vx-underground who reported the leak, the archive contains data that dates back to March 2, 2022, which could be the data of the data breach.
vx-underground stated that leaked data includes first name, last name, Internal TransUnion identifiers, sex, passport information, place of birth, date of birth, civil status, age, current employer, information on their employer, a summary of financial transactions, credit score, loans in their name, remaining balances on the loans, where they got the loan from, and when TransUnion first began monitoring their information.
In response, TransUnion investigated the claim, and made a statement that its systems weren’t breached, and that the data may have come from a third party. “We have found that multiple aspects of the messages – including the data, formatting, and fields – do not match the data content or formats at TransUnion”, said the statement.
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