Nearly 750,000 Had Financial Info, SSNs Leaked in South Carolina Loan Company Breach

• Source: The Record
• Date: 2026-08-17
• Reliability: Tier 2/4 — Established cyber journalism
• Entity: Heights Finance (debt-consolidation loan company)

Summary

Cybercriminals breached the cloud system of debt-consolidation loan company Heights Finance in May, stealing financial and personal data on about 734,828 customers. The company, which operates dozens of personal loan businesses across Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas and South Carolina, published a customer warning and told Texas regulators on 15 August 2026.

Key Facts

• ~734,828 customers affected; first-party disclosure + regulator notification
• Stolen data: contact details, bank account + routing numbers, government IDs (SSNs, tax IDs, driver's licence/state IDs), customer-service interaction data
• Breach discovered 7 May when a hacker accessed a third-party-hosted cloud platform
• Company says intrusion limited to the cloud platform; loan-management systems not affected
• Threat profile: identity-integrity and third-party cloud exposure

Sector

Financial Services — Consumer-lending / debt-consolidation data breach via third-party cloud.

Source

https://therecord.media/financial-info-leak-debt-consolidator

Reliability

Tier 2 — Established cyber journalism; breach confirmed by company and regulator filing.

Date

2026-08-17

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Sources: raw/digests/Cyber-Digest-2026-08-18