While the three-day-long breach began on September 20, 2024, the firm has not provided an estimate for the number of victims impacted, nearly three weeks later.
MoneyGram does boast of having more than 150 million customers, however, via its over 430,000 locations which span 200 countries and territories.
The hack exposed basic information like customer names, their dates of birth and contact information, including phone numbers, emails and postal addresses.
But the cyberattack also gave the unknown hacker, or hackers, access to much more sensitive, government-issued identification documents: scanned driver’s licenses, national identification numbers and US Social Security numbers.