The seller who wasn't there: How deepfakes and deed fraud crash real estate deals
Organized fraud rings are targeting vacant land and absentee homeowners
by Nick Pipitone Jun 4
An image of a robot looking at a huge wall made up of smaller screens to signify the death of traditional seo.
SEO is changing rapidly, and most agents are not prepared, Jeff Bernheisel writes. Get your SEO strategy out of the early 2000s and into 2025 with this agent’s pivot to purchase strategy
by Jeff Bernheisel Oct 2
Title insurance titan Bill Foley's investment firm is in a proxy fight
Activist investor Dan Gropper claims Cannae Holdings' 'vague and undifferentiated' approach to acquisitions and 'egregious governance practices' have cost shareholders nearly $1B
by Matt Carter Mar 20
Loan servicer agrees to $20M fine over 2021 cybersecurity breach
Bayview Asset Management and affiliates settle allegations that security was deficient and state regulators were stymied in investigation of 2021 incident affecting 5.8M customers
by Matt Carter Jan 8
AnnieMac notifies more than 170K customers of data breach
National mortgage lender offering affected customers free credit monitoring and identity theft protection after hackers accessed Social Security numbers in August data breach
by Matt Carter Nov 18
LoanDepot hackers had access to Social Security numbers, DOBs
Hit by lawsuits, the lender is offering 24 months of free identity protection services and credit monitoring from Experian to 16.9M consumers affected by the January cyberattack
by Matt Carter Feb 27
Ransomware group claims it was behind loanDepot cyberattack
The FBI has developed a decryption tool to combat the ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware variant, and authorities are offering $15M in rewards to stop the group
by Matt Carter Feb 21
Guild Mortgage set to acquire, rebrand Academy Mortgage
Upward of 1,000 Academy Mortgage employees will make the transition to Guild, including more than 600 originators, Guild said in announcing the 6th acquisition in 3 years
by Matt Carter Feb 13
Personal data of 16.6M loanDepot customers exposed
The mortgage lender has restored websites that collect payments, accept loan applications and match homebuyers with partner real estate agents after Jan. 4 cyberattack
by Matt Carter Jan 24
LoanDepot is latest real estate company to be targeted by hackers
Mortgage lender says unauthorized party accessed its systems and encrypted some of its data, a tactic employed by ransomware groups to target more than 1,000 companies and organizations
by Matt Carter Jan 8
Title insurer First American and many subsidiaries remain offline
The Dec. 20 cybersecurity incident has derailed closings and generated complaints about the lack of communication since the company took some systems offline
by Matt Carter Dec 26
LoanCare says data breach affected 1.3M mortgage customers
Parent company Fidelity National Financial has not said whether its other subsidiaries were also affected in a cybersecurity incident the company says it discovered and contained in November
by Matt Carter Dec 26
First American Financial warns clients to watch out for fake emails
Two days after being hit by a cyberattack, the title insurance giant says it's still trying to restore operations, warns clients that it's taken its email system offline and to be wary of messages
by Matt Carter Dec 22
Title insurer First American Financial is hackers' latest target
The nation's 2nd biggest title insurer issues terse statement saying it's taken some systems offline. Ransomware group Blackcat has infiltrated more than 1,000 computer networks
by Matt Carter Dec 21