On October 17, 2024, mortgage brokerage McLean Mortgage Corporation appeared on the leak site of the Black Basta ransomware group. The listing claims roughly 1 TB of internal files were taken during a ransomware attack. Anyone who has borrowed money, refinanced, or simply applied for a loan through the Fairfax, Virginia firm now faces the possibility that sensitive personal and financial records are in criminal hands.
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Details in the Leak-Site Listing
The Black Basta posting, hosted on their onion site and mirrored on ransomware.live, states that data was exfiltrated from mcleanmortgage.com. It lists six broad categories: accounting records, financial data including loans and payrolls, tax documents, human-resources files, confidential business material, and customers’ and employees’ personal documents. The disclosure does not specify the exact number of individuals affected. It also does not publish samples, but the volume cited—approximately one terabyte—suggests a large cache of spreadsheets, PDFs, and scanned client files typical of a mortgage operation.
McLean Mortgage Corporation, founded in 2008 and located at 11325 Random Hills Road in Fairfax, has not yet issued a public breach notification. As a result, many customers remain unaware that their loan applications, Social Security numbers, bank statements, and tax returns may have been stolen.
Why This Matters for You and Your Family
If you or anyone in your household has done business with McLean Mortgage since 2008, your financial history, income details, and identity documents could now sit on a ransomware server. Mortgage files routinely contain full names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, employer information, bank-account numbers, and copies of driver’s licenses or passports. Once criminals possess this combination, they can open new accounts, file fraudulent tax returns, or sell the package to identity thieves. Even if you were only a co-borrower or a reference on someone else’s application, your information may still be included.