{"id":21605,"date":"2026-02-13T21:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21605"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:40:35","slug":"fintech-lending-giant-figure-confirms-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21605","title":{"rendered":"Fintech lending giant Figure confirms data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, confirmed it experienced a data breach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/19\/figures-ipo-filing-marks-mike-cagneys-return-to-public-markets\/\">Figure<\/a> spokesperson Alethea Jadick told TechCrunch in a statement that the breach originated when an employee was tricked with a social engineering attack that allowed the hackers to steal \u201ca limited number of files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement said the company is \u201cwith partners and those impacted,\u201d and offering free credit monitoring \u201cto all individuals who receive a notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figure\u2019s spokesperson did not respond to a series of specific questions about the breach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hacking group <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/tag\/shinyhunters\/\">ShinyHunters<\/a> took responsibility for the hack on its official dark web leak website, saying the company refused to pay a ransom, and published 2.5 gigabytes of allegedly stolen data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch saw a portion of the data, which included customers\u2019 full names, home addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A member of ShinyHunters told TechCrunch that Figure was among the victims of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/topics\/threat-intelligence\/expansion-shinyhunters-saas-data-theft\">a hacking campaign<\/a> that targeted customers who rely on the single sign-on provider Okta. Other victims of the campaign include <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/04\/hackers-publish-personal-information-stolen-during-harvard-upenn-data-breaches\/\">Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 23, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/13\/fintech-lending-giant-figure-confirms-data-breach\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure Technology, a blockchai&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[4437,1662,4078,13005,3210,1665,1666,11851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}