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-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/massive-data-leak-just-exposed-the-personal-info-of-6-million-shoppers-how-to-stay-safe” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/massive-data-leak-just-exposed-the-personal-info-of-6-million-shoppers-how-to-stay-safe”>data breach that occurred last month on September 2nd. The breach, according to the company’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://prosper.evyy.net/c/221109/27098/994?subId1=tomsguide-us-2238171191959572785&sharedId=tomsguide-us&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prosper.com%2Flegal%2Fincident-response” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.prosper.com/legal/incident-response” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” rel=”sponsored noopener” data-hl-processed=”hawklinks” data-placeholder-url=”https://prosper.evyy.net/c/221109/27098/994?subId1=hawk-custom-tracking&sharedId=hawk-prefix&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prosper.com%2Flegal%2Fincident-response” data-google-interstitial=”false” data-merchant-name=”Prosper.com” data-merchant-id=”26606″ data-merchant-network=”ImpactRad” data-merchant-url=”prosper.com”>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, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/how-to-protect-your-social-security-number” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/how-to-protect-your-social-security-number”>Social Security numbers,…
