- A former finvice employee used sensitive data on 689,000 people after a year after leaving the company
- The victims include the finance loans or American First Finance, with accounts served by its technology partner.
- Finquiz hired security experts, notified officers and offered credit monitoring
The Utah-based community bank, Finviz Bank, recently faced an insider data violation when a former employee accessed sensitive customer data after the end of his employment.
In a new report filed with the office of the Main Attorney General, Finvis said that the breech was on 31 May, 2024, but more than a year later, was discovered on 18 June 2025. Overall, sensitive data on 689,000 people was compromised.
While the filing does not expand the nature of stolen files, a data breech notification letter, which has been sent to the affected persons, refer to “full name” and other “data elements”.
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The company did not reveal how the former employee accessed the files.
Finviz said that data may be related to the US First Finance (AFF), which is a financial services company that provides alternative consumer financing, especially for people with limited or poor credit history.
To offer installment loans to consumers with finance contracts, “The bank explained.” In this system, Finviz is a lender and AFF is a technology provider. Finviz originates the loan and provides funds to the consumer. AFF is contracted to provide the application platform, facilitates the origin of the loan for finance, as well as the loan service from the finviz. ,
The bank indicates that people who have, or have been applied to them, are a probable victim of the incident, a finvice installment loan, a lease-to-on account, or a retail installment sales agreement.
After finding out about the attack, the bank did to all companies on cope with the same thing: brought to third party security experts to assess the loss and analyze the attack, notified law-enforcement and other relevant officers to the affected persons, and offered a year free credit monitoring and Identification of theft Security. The seller’s name was not revealed.
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