HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceVulnerability ExploitCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

LENDING TREE, LLC

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jun 3, 2022

Filed

Jul 1, 2022

To disclose

28 days

Affected

901state residents only

Linked

4 filings

Confidence

68%

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

LendingTree, LLC notified the Washington AG of a data breach affecting 901 state residents. A code vulnerability likely resulted in unauthorized disclosure of names, SSNs, DOBs, and addresses starting mid-February 2022. LendingTree discovered the issue on June 3, 2022, remediated the vulnerability, and began notifying residents on June 29, 2022, offering 24 months of identity theft protection.

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Washington clock✓ WA AG ≤30d28 days discovery → filing

⚠ AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Incident timeline

undetected · 108 days

discovery → filing · 28 days

Feb 15, 2022

Begins

Jun 3, 2022

Discovered

Jul 1, 2022

Filed

vs. sector median

4 wks faster

This filing is one of 4 filings 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
Montana State AGbd_6f81a36cc7241dd02022-06-29 · +2dCandidate
Oregon State AGbd_5ac5c9ac50b34bd62022-07-18 · +17dVerified

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

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

Discovered: Jun 3, 2022
Breach occurred: Feb 15, 2022
Undetected for: 108 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 29, 2022
Affected individuals: 901state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDate of birth
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle Unknowndexposure Unknownd
WA-stated discovery: Found after the fact
Attack vector: Misconfiguration
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Attorney General of Washington
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Remediated the vulnerability
Offering, at no charge, identity theft protection services through IdentityForce
Working to implement additional security measures to protect consumers
Changes made: Implementing additional security measures to protect consumers who visit our online interfaces
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 28 days(28 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG ≤30d
Discovery-date grounding: AG web formThe discovery date came from the AG web-form field, which is systematically later than the detection date stated in the letter. Treat the clock as indicative.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 4 filings · 4 states

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Montana State AGJun 29 · first

Indiana State AG+1d

Washington State AG+2d · this page

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://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachM13570.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jul 1, 2022
Raw hash: a17746e278a294bc0a4050afc7a56197a036ec5fca0823f9f92c35e56631674e

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (3) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLENDING TREE, LLC

Victim entityLENDING TREE, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Jun 3, 2022

Stated responseRemediated the vulnerability

ComplianceWA AG ≤30d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com