US government is taking various measures to help small businesses to survive the current Coronavirus pandemic. A Small Business Association (SBA)[1] is one of the federal agencies expanded by Congress to grant law authorized loans to small business owners suffering losses during the pandemic. However, the company admitted on Tuesday that the company-owned program Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) experienced a glitch[2] on March 25, resulting in nearly 8,000 loan applicant's personal data exposed.
The SBA company closed the affected EIDL services down to fix the flaw and relaunched the application portal soon after that. The possible victims of a data leak were notified about an issue by paper mail, which contains the list of possibly disclosed personal information. According to SBA, there is a shred of evidence suggesting an attempt to misuse personally identifiable information, including SSN/TIN, addresses, date of birth, email address, phone number, marital status, citizenship status, household size, income, disclosure inquiry, financial and insurance information.
SBA takes PPP and EIDL services down temporarily due to a data breach affecting 8,000 applicants
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