14 DAY TRIAL // A Fannie Mae employee is suspected of selling handwritten copies of financial information belonging to 1,100 individuals, but the puzzling fact about this is that the organization claims their database doesn't contain some of the information provided by the staff member.
In a letter sent to the Attorney General's Office in New Hampshire, the enterprise that is overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency claims that the crime was discovered sometime in October when the employee was found passing pieces of information such as names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth and credit scores.
“At this point in the investigation we are not certain whether the handwritten information came from Fannie Mae since some of the information discovered is not typically maintained in Fannie Mae systems, such as driver's license number and financial account information,” reads the letter.
“Based on the information we presently have available, we do not believe that this incident was the result of an electronic breach of any Fannie Mae computer system.”
As a result, the organization is providing free credit monitoring to the potential victims, but as it turns out, some of the victims have nothing to do with Fannie Mae.
So if their computers were not tampered with and some of the individuals had nothing to do with them, how did the staff member manage to obtain all the information?
DataBreaches suggests that the suspect may have used someone's credentials to log into Experian or other related agency's database which might explain how he got in the possession of all that data.
If the scheme really did start in 2008 as the company assumes, the employee had a lot of time to master the techniques needed to leak so much information and get away with it for such a long period.