Carrington Mortgage Services LLC is a certified mortgage lender with the ability to lend money to homebuyers in 48 of the 50 states as well as Puerto Rico. Interested home buyers in the United States can get help obtaining funding for a home purchase by working with Carrington. Carrington manages a substantial amount of homebuyer data for homeowners from around the country, and many of those individuals were put at risk by a recent data breach impacting Carrington Mortgage Services.
The Carrington Mortgage Services data breach occurred because of a successfully executed ransomware attack on Alvaria Inc. Alvaria is a data management and IT services company that contracted with Carrington to offer data storage and other information services. The company lost key Carrington data when it was breached.
Alvaria was breached on March 9, 2023, losing key Carrington Mortgage Services data. An investigation of this breach wasn't concluded until April 4, 2023, when it was determined that all of the data listed above may have been leaked for each individual involved.
This Alvaria data breach impacts Carrington Mortgage Services customers that entrusted the company with their personal data. The attack uncovered data held in the technical system log and temp files of the Alvaria systems. If you rely on Carrington Mortgage Services to manage your finances and your data, you could be at risk.
Only the temporary internet files and system logs were impacted in this data breach, but those two things gave up enough information to put users at a real risk for future phishing attacks and potential identity theft.