Meilleurtaux Victim of a Data Breach, Including Very Sensitive Information

Meilleurtaux, the French specialist in online credit brokerage, informed its customers on September 27, 2024, that it had suffered a data breach. “We detected an external attack on our IT systems, which we quickly halted,” the company said.

The company did not disclose the nature or scope of the breach, only indicating that it affected anyone who had “recently requested support from Meilleurtaux.”

The exposed data includes highly sensitive information. In addition to names, addresses, phone numbers, family situations, and clients’ dates and countries of birth, the leak also involves income levels and employment situations.

With this information, scammers could easily pose as a banking or real estate advisor and attempt to defraud internet users. “Meilleurtaux will never ask you to make a bank transfer over the phone or to deposit your own funds or the amounts loaned by banks,” the online brokerage service stated.