Municipal Bond Insurance Association (MBIA)

Name of Entity
Municipal Bond Insurance Association (MBIA)
Organization Type
Businesses-Financial and Insurance Services
Address

Purchase, NY
United States

Description
Brian Krebs of Krebs On Security notified MBIA of a breach that exposed numerous customer account numbers, balances and various other sensitive data due to a misconfiguration on a company Web server. "Much of the information had been indexed by search engines, including a
page listing administrative credentials that attackers could use to
access data that wasn’t already accessible via a simple Web search."MBIA is one of the largest bond insurers, that offers municipal bond insurance and investment management products and services companies such as Aetna and Fireman's Fund.The company has since shut this website down and is currently investigating. No information is available to the number of individuals that may have been affected by the breach.More Information:http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/huge-data-leak-at-largest-u-s-bond-in...
Date of Breach
01/01/2014