Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons

Congrats, First American Title Insurance, you've made technology history. For all the wrong reasons

A California-based insurer that inadvertently left tens of millions of private customer records open to the internet has become the first company to be charged by New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) for cybersecurity rule violations.


The Empire State's financial regulator said First American Title Insurance was so negligent with securing its data, it broke state laws on the protection of non-public information (NPI). In April 2018, the insurer's systems housed 753 million documents, 65 million of which had been tagged as including non-public info. In May 2019, it contained more than 850 million records total. All were available for four years via the web due to a security vulnerability.


And despite knowing of this flaw in its software for six months, the biz did nothing to fix the problem. It could be fined $1,000 per NPI infringement.


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