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Debt Collector Data Breach Exposes Data on 3 Million+ Americans – PCMag UK

Debt Collector Data Breach Exposes Data on 3 Million+ Americans – PCMag UK

US debt collection company Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) has experienced a data breach, exposing the information of more than 3.2 million Americans.

Threat actors accessed FBCS’ systems on Valentine’s Day, but the company didn’t realize the breach had occurred until Feb. 26. In a public notice, FBCS describes the incident as “unauthorized access to certain systems in its network.”

That public notice, however, did not happen until late April. Two other alerts went out in…

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