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Fidelity National Financial says hackers stole data on 1.3 million customers


The November cyberattack knocked the real estate servicing giant offline for a week, freezing the company's operations.

Real estate services giant Fidelity National Financial has confirmed hackers stole data on 1.3 million of its customers during a November cyberattack that knocked the company offline for a week. The ransomware gang known as ALPHV (or BlackCat) claimed responsibility for the FNF cyberattack in a post on its dark web leak site, which it uses to extort victims into paying the hackers to remove and delete the data. FNF was one of several corporate victims of cyberattacks in recent weeks targeting the mortgage and loan industry, including LoanDepot and Mr. Cooper.

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