Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that allows borrowers to apply for loans that investors can then cover, has been hit by a data breach that occurred last month on September 2nd. The breach, according to the company's FAQ page, happened as as a result of “unauthorized queries made on company databases that store customer and applicant data” which allowed a hacker to access customer and applicant information.
The personal information that was exposed includes names, Social Security numbers, government-issued IDs, employment and credit status, income levels, birth dates, physical addresses, IP addresses, and browser user-agent details. Prosper's FAQ page also states that the unauthorized parties did not gain any access to customer accounts or funds, and that customer facing operations were not interrupted. While the company did not share how many people were affected, BleepingComputer has reported that 17.6 million unique email addresses were affected.
