TMX Finance Data Breach Investigation

Written by The Lyon Firm on April 1, 2023. Posted in Data Breach, Litigation Update.

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The Lyon Firm is actively involved in class action personal privacy and data theft cases and is currently investigating TMX Finance data breach claims for plaintiffs nationwide.

TMX Finance and its subsidiaries TitleMax, TitleBucks, and InstaLoan have begun notifying customers of a data breach that exposed the personal data of 4,822,580 individuals.

TitleMax, a lending business, operated over 1,000 stores across the U.S. TitleBucks is a car title loans service, and InstaLoan is a fast-approval personal loan service for those with sub-par credit.

In a data breach notification letter sent out, the company says hackers breached TMX systems in December 2022 but did not detect the breach until February 13th, 2023. Client information may have been stolen between February 3rd and 14th, 2023.

According to TMX, the information involved may have included the following:

Full name
Date of birth
Passport number
Driver’s license number
Federal/state identification card number
Tax identification number
Social security number
Financial account information
Phone number
Physical address
Email address