AccidentalFinancial ServicesTechnologyFinanceMisconfigurationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

LENDING TREE, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 3, 2022

Filed

Jun 29, 2022

To disclose

26 days

Affected

206state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for LENDING TREE, LLC →3 incidents on file

LendingTree, LLC notified Montana residents of a data breach where a code vulnerability led to unauthorized disclosure of PII (name, SSN, DOB, address) starting mid-Feb 2022. Discovered June 3, 2022. Notices sent June 29, 2022. LendingTree offered 24 months of credit monitoring via IdentityForce.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 108 days

discovery → filing · 26 days

Feb 15, 2022

Begins

Jun 3, 2022

Discovered

Jun 29, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

5 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Indiana State AGbd_8d86fa3ca1d551532022-06-30 · +1dVerified
Washington State AGbd_8684ff0000d329f02022-07-01 · +2dVerified
Oregon State AGbd_5ac5c9ac50b34bd62022-07-18 · +19dVerified

Name: LENDING TREE, LLC
norm: lending tree
Domain: lendingtree.com

Name: LENDING TREE, LLC
norm: lending tree
Domain: lendingtree.com
Industry: Financial ServicesllmTechnologyllm

Discovered: Jun 3, 2022
Breach occurred: Feb 15, 2022
Undetected for: 108 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2022
Affected individuals: 206state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Offering, at no charge, identity theft protection services through IdentityForce
Working to implement additional security measures to protect consumers
Changes made: The vulnerability in the code no longer exists
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 days(26 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

View merged incident ↗

Montana State AGJun 29 · first · this page

Indiana State AG+1d

Washington State AG+2d

Oregon State AG+19d

Pattern: first filing Jun 29 (MT), last Jul 18 (OR) — a 19-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/OCP/Consumer-Notification-Letter-363.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 29, 2022
Raw hash: d3e9ee908d38c5f8d2285c673eb506592e9ba5e014fb951b9521531bf924b3b4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLENDING TREE, LLC

Victim entityLENDING TREE, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jun 3, 2022

Stated responseOffering, at no charge, identity theft protection services through IdentityForce

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov