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2025 Database intrusion — 17.6M records

2025 17.6M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Names, SSNs, dates of birth, addresses, email, government IDs, employment data, income, bank account numbers, driver's license numbers, tax information

Technical writeup

Unauthorized access to Prosper's databases between June and August 2025. Attackers issued unauthorized queries to extract customer data in a 'quiet database intrusion' that did not disrupt customer-facing services. Data compromised included SSNs, bank account numbers, driver's license numbers, and tax information. Prosper offered two years of credit monitoring through Experian.

Root cause

Unauthorized database access; direct data extraction via queries.

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