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    First American security flaw leaked 885 million real estate documents

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    05.25.2019

    First American Financial Corporation left as many as 885 million real estate documents dating as far back as 2003 exposed, according to Krebs on Security. The company, one of the largest real estate title insurance firms in the US, has already fixed the vulnerability as of Friday afternoon after the security researcher notified it of the flaw. Before the patch rolled out, however, anybody armed with a link to one of the documents hosted on its website could simply change a single digit in the URL to access somebody else's files. The documents didn't require a password or any kind of authentication.