Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-04-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Wolfe & Associates
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Real Estate and Rental and Leasing
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Gordon Welterlen; Nicole Milan
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Wolfe & Associates, Property Services discloses that an online database was compromised by cyber-criminals in a data breach that may have occurred as many as six months ago. In January 2021, San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen and Nicole Milan admitted to hacking Wolfe & Associates and stealing the identities of more than 9,000 clients. They used that information for fraudulent purposes.