https://www.cyberscoop.com/sba-data-exposure-covid-19-loan-program-small-business-administration/
By Sean Lyngaas
CYBERSCOOP
April 5, 2020
As the federal agency overseeing relief to small businesses during the
coronavirus pandemic was preparing to ramp up its lending, some of the Small
Business Administration’s loan applicants may have had their personally
identifiable information exposed to others, an agency spokeswoman tells
CyberScoop.
“Personal identifiable information of a limited number of Economic Injury
Disaster Loan applicants was potentially exposed to other applicants on [the
Small Business Administration’s] loan application site,” SBA spokeswoman Carol
Wilkerson said in a statement Saturday.
“We immediately disabled the impacted portion of the website, addressed the
issue, and relaunched the application portal,” the statement continued. “SBA
continues to process applications submitted via email, paper, and online.”
The cause of the data exposure at SBA, and for how long it occurred, was not
immediately clear. Wilkerson did not respond to questions on why the PII may
have been exposed and what types of data were affected.
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