Keywords: Cybercrime, Data Breach, File Transfer Appliance, Flagstar Bank, Personal Data, Personally Identifiable Information, Security Incident
Author: Charlie Osborne
Publisher: ZDNET
Publication Year: 2022
Summary: The following article discusses how a data breach occurred at Flagstar Bank between December 3 and December 4, 2021. The security incident caused the exposure of personal data belonging to up to 1.5 million customers. It is worth mentioning that this is the second security issue happened at Flagstar in just over a year. In March 2021, their File Transfer Appliance (FTA) flaw led to the exposure of customer PII.
