Hackers Expose Data of 1.2 Million Heights Finance Customers
August 18, 2026 
A Heights Finance breach exposed personal and financial data of over 1.2 million people after hackers compromised a third-party cloud platform.
Heights Finance is a U.S. consumer finance company that provides personal loans and related lending services, mainly to customers who may have limited access to traditional bank credit. It is part of Heights Finance Holdings Co.
Heights Finance Holdings is notifying more than 1.2 million people that on May 7, 2026, Heights Finance discovered unauthorized access to a third-party cloud platform storing customer data. The company launched an investigation with external cybersecurity experts and notified federal law enforcement.
“On May 7, 2026, Heights discovered that an unauthorized actor gained access to a cloud-based platform hosted by a third party that we use to store certain customer data. This activity was limited to the cloud-based platform only—it did not affect any of our loan management systems or other computer systems or networks. We immediately activated our incident response protocols, brought in outside cybersecurity specialists to investigate, and reported the incident to federal law enforcement.” reads the notice of data breach.
“We have since confirmed that the cloud-based platform is secure and that there is no ongoing security threat. Our operations were not impacted by this incident and have continued safely and securely.”
Heights said its internal systems and operations were not affected, the platform has been secured, and there is no ongoing threat.
The compromised customer information included contact details, financial and bank account data, government IDs and dates of birth. The affected data varies by person and may involve Heights Finance customers, loan applicants, people who inquired about its products, or former borrowers of Curo Management and related brands.
Heights Finance is offering affected individuals 24 months of free credit monitoring and identity protection. The company said dark web monitoring has found no evidence that the stolen data has been published.
No threat actor has claimed responsibility, and no known ransomware or extortion group has been linked to the breach so far.
Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon
Pierluigi Paganini
(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Heights Finance)
