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It seems that the stock price (under the ticker FAF) hasn't suffered very much. This was revealed on 5/19, and the response has been tepid.There isn't likely going to be very much backlash on the stock, unfortunately.


I think that's May 2019, not May 19th. From the bottom: This entry was posted on Friday, May 24th, 2019


I don't think there will be, we're well into "breach fatigue" territory now, and here there's not even currently any evidence of malicious use.

Unless/until this breach results in a large financial hit to the company (possibly via a class action suit) I doubt it'll have any impact and I'm not even sure a class action suit could show damages without evidence of misuse.


Equifax's costs as a result of their breach have exceeded $1 billion now, and Moody's downgraded them a couple of days ago.

I suspect this is going to hit First American pretty hard.


Doubt it. There's no evidence yet that FA's leak was used by malicious hackers. The breach was discovered by some random other person who typed in a different parameter to a URL. Very likely that no one else would've known about it.

Whereas the Equifax situation was intentionally breached by attackers and it can be assumed that the breach was used to capture information for later sale.

I suspect that First American knew about this earlier this week and intentionally did a garbage dump on a Friday evening on Memorial Day Weekend. Maybe trade down a few tenths of a percent on Tuesday and their CISO will probably get axed. Nothing to see here, move along.


Markets are closed, down slightly after hours, but after hours volumes are weird.


The breach was revealed 6 minutes before I posted this. First on Twitter, then here.


Mainstream media haven't picked up the story yet. It only just broke.




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