Idaho Department of Finance · ID
State Regulators Settle with ACI Payments, Inc. for Unauthorized Transactions from Mr. Cooper Customer Accounts
October 17, 2023
Summary
State regulators reached a $10 million settlement with ACI Payments, Inc. following an incident where live customer data was erroneously used in a test environment, causing unauthorized mortgage payment withdrawals. This multistate enforcement action highlights the critical importance of maintaining strict information security and testing protocols for third-party payment processing vendors.
The Idaho Department of Finance and 43 other state agencies have reached settlements with ACI Payments, Inc., for erroneously initiating electronic transactions totaling $2.3 billion from the accounts of 480,000 mortgage-holders serviced by Mr. Cooper (formerly known as Nationstar Mortgage, LLC). State regulators levied $10 million through a multistate enforcement action led by regulators from Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, and Texas with support from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
ACI Payments, a subsidiary of ACI Worldwide Corp., is a state-regulated money services business licensed in Idaho and nearly all other U.S. states (NMLS ID 936777). Mr. Cooper offered ACI’s Speedpay product for its customers to schedule their monthly mortgage payments, enabling automatic transfers of authorized mortgage payments from their personal bank accounts to Mr. Cooper. The violations occurred when ACI Payments erroneously used live customer data in a test of its Speedpay platform, causing unexpected and sometimes multiple mortgage payments from customer accounts. In some cases, these transactions exposed consumers to overdraft or insufficient funds fees.
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- It was published on October 17, 2023.
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