Private data of some 7,900 small-business applicants for federal disaster loans may have been exposed to other applicants.
"Personal identifiable information of a limited number of Economic Injury Disaster Loan applicants was potentially exposed to other applicants on SBA's disaster loan application site on March 25," the Small Business Administration said in a statement shared with ThinkAdvisor late Tuesday. "We immediately disabled the impacted portion of the website, addressed the issue, and relaunched the application portal."
Businesses that may have been affected have been notified by the SBA, which offered them a free year of credit monitoring.