Publicly Traded Blockchain Lender Figure Confirms Customer Data Breach

Figure Technology confirmed Friday that it suffered a customer data breach after an employee was targeted in a social engineering attack. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom and that it published 2.5 gigabytes of stolen data. TechCrunch, which first reported on the breach, said that it reviewed some of the files, which included customers’ full names, home addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers. “We recently identified that an employee was so ...