MoneyGram confirms hackers stole customers’ personal info, transaction data

American money transfer company MoneyGram has acknowledged that during a breach last month, hackers obtained the transactional and personal data of its clients.

An unauthorized third party “accessed and acquired” customer data during the September 20 cyberattack, the MoneyGram claimed in a statement released on Monday.

The source of the intrusion is yet unknown, but it caused a week-long outage that brought the company’s app and website offline thus disrupting business activities for a while.

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The company disclosed that names, phone numbers, email and postal addresses, dates of birth, and national identity numbers are among the stolen customer data.

In addition, MoneyGram also noted in a statement that transaction data—such as dates and quantities of transactions—and, “for a limited number of consumers, criminal investigation information (such as fraud)” were among the stolen records.

“Upon detecting the issue, we took steps to contain and remediate it, including proactively taking certain systems offline, which temporarily impacted the availability of our services,” the company says in an incident notice on its website.

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