Berkadia
March 19, 2026
•[ ransomware, finance, technology ]
In March 2026, the commercial real estate finance company Berkadia was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data they alleged was taken from Berkadia's Salesforce instance, including over 300k unique email addresses as well as names, physical addresses and phone numbers, among other data.
Empower Group
April 15, 2026
•[ data leak, personally identifiable information, finance ]
DragonForce reportedly claimed responsibility for a breach of Empower Group, a New York-based alternative financing provider, and claimed to have exfiltrated approximately 316GB of data. DataBreach later indexed 6,691,415 rows allegedly tied to the breach, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, names, and street addresses. Public sources did not confirm file encryption or operational disruption.
Prosper
September 1, 2025
•[ hack, finance ]
In September 2025, Prosper announced that it had detected unauthorised access to their systems, which resulted in the exposure of customer and applicant information. The data breach impacted 17.6M unique email addresses, along with other customer information, including US Social Security numbers. Prosper advised that they did not find any evidence of unauthorised access to customer accounts and funds, and that their customer-facing operations were uninterrupted. Further information about the incident is contained in Prosper's FAQs.
Viva Health Insurance
June 14, 2025
•[ leak, misconfiguration, healthcare ]
Viva Health, an Alabama-based health insurance company headquartered in Birmingham, experienced exposure of a web-accessible file from June 14 to August 27, 2025. The file contained limited PHI for about 4,945 members and was removed upon discovery. No misuse or encryption was reported.
Union Home Mortgage Corp.
June 25, 2025
•[ hack, finance ]
Union Home Mortgage Corp. experienced unauthorized access to internal servers, exposing personal and identification data of roughly 24,000 customers. No encryption or ransomware activity was reported.
Fairmont Federal Credit Union
September 30, 2023
•[ leak, financial, finance ]
Between September 30 and October 18, 2023, Fairmont Federal Credit Union in West Virginia experienced unauthorized access to its internal file servers and databases. Attackers exfiltrated sensitive personal, financial, and limited medical information of about 187,000 members. No data encryption or ransomware activity was reported.
Russia’s System for Fast Payments (SBP)
September 24, 2025
•[ financial, ddos, finance ]
Ukraines Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) conducted a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operation on September 24, 2025, targeting Russias System for Fast Payments (SBP). The attack caused a full nationwide disruption of online payment services for several hours, halting financial transfers and transaction processing across Russian banks. TransTeleComs supporting network infrastructure was also temporarily overloaded during the event.
Trusteed Plans Service Corporation
December 26, 2024
•[ leak, finance ]
TPSC detected a breach on 12/26/2024; investigation found unauthorized access and data acquisition. A data review completed 08/07/2025 identified 19,775 impacted individuals. Notices sent 09/1509/16/2025 detail exposure of PII/PHI (DOB, SSN, health info; sometimes insurance IDs). No outage or misuse evidence reported.
Unnamed U.S. Banking Organization
May 9, 2025
•[ social, misconfiguration, finance ]
ReliaQuest links Scattered Spider to renewed activity against U.S. financial services, including a bank intrusion achieved via social engineering + Azure AD SSPR, followed by lateral movement (Citrix/VPN), ESXi compromise, and cloud data access attempts (Snowflake/AWS).
FinWise
May 31, 2024
•[ insider, finance ]
Former FinWise employee accessed AFF customer files after termination, impacting 689k individuals; discovered June 18, 2025; investigation and credit monitoring offered; multiple lawsuits filed.
Sinqia
August 29, 2025
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
On Aug 29, 2025, attackers used stolen vendor credentials to breach Sinqia's access to Brazils Pix system, attempting $130M in fraudulent transfers. Immediate action halted operations; some funds recovered. No data breach occurred.
Lotte Card
August 14, 2025
•[ hack, leak, finance ]
A cyber breach in mid-August 2025 led to Lotte Cards internal systems being accessed and ~1.7 GB of files stolen. Authorities ordered consumer protection measuresincluding compensation procedures and fraud monitoringwhile investigating whether sensitive customer data was impacted.
Wealthsimple
August 30, 2025
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
A third-party software component was compromised, leading to unauthorized access to sensitive data of a small subset of Wealthsimple clients. Accounts and funds remained secure. Incident was rapidly contained and clients notified.
Carter Credit Union
June 25, 2025
•[ hack, finance ]
A cybercriminal infiltrated Carter Credit Unions network between June 25 and July 2, 2025, accessing files containing personal and medical information of approximately 68,934 individuals. Investigations are ongoing, notifications have been sent, and affected members were offered credit monitoring services. Law firms are reviewing legal claims.
Multiple Crypto Users
August 9, 2025
•[ financial, hack, malware ]
Malicious updates to popular npm packages deployed credential/wallet-stealing malware impacting crypto/DeFi users; community advisories urged halting transactions and rotating secrets; maintainers removed tainted packages; early losses ~$900$1,043 total.
TransUnion
July 28, 2025
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Unauthorized access via third-party contractor application used in U.S. consumer support operations enabled viewing and copying of files.
Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)
August 11, 2025
•[ hack, finance ]
Cybersecurity breach at CIRO confirmed Aug 11, 2025. Some personal data of member firms and their registered employees were compromised. CIRO continues core surveillance operations, is investigating impact, will notify affected individuals, and provide mitigation.
Welcome Financial Group
August 21, 2025
•[ ransomware, finance ]
ALPHV/BlackCat claimed responsibility for stealing 1.024 TB of files from Welcome Financial Group, alleging it contained customer data such as names, addresses, and account numbers. The firm countered that only internal documents like meeting records were taken, and that its savings bank unit and customer accounts were not compromised.
Farmers Insurance (via third-party vendor)
May 29, 2025
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Over 1.1 million customers impacted by breach via Salesforce-linked vendor breach. Exfiltration involved social engineering/vishing and malicious OAuth apps, with ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider providing access and exfiltration. Two years of identity protection offered.
Baltimore Archdiocese (via Stinson LLP & BRG)
February 1, 2025
•[ leak, finance ]
Protected survivor data exposed from law firm (Stinson LLP) and financial advisor (BRG) systems supporting Archdiocese bankruptcy cases
