First American Financial settles SEC charges for cyber-security failures
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Jaclyn Jaeger2021-06-15T16:04:00
First American Financial Corp. reached a $487,616 settlement with the SEC for failing to maintain cyber-security disclosure controls and procedures that exposed more than 800 million title insurance records containing sensitive customer information.
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