A data breach in the Small Business Association‘s online application portal may have compromised personal information for nearly 8,000 businesses seeking emergency loans last month
, the agency said today.
In a letter to affected business owners, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, SBA said it discovered March 25 that the application system for Economic Injury Disaster Loans may have disclosed personal information to other applicants of the program — including Social Security numbers, income amounts, names, addresses and contact information.
“We immediately disabled the impacted portion of the website, addressed the issue, and relaunched the application portal,” the spokesperson said.
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