Title companies sue HUD after fraudulent payoff

The title companies that eventually were forced to purchase property after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) failed to record a reconveyance of a deed of trust on a reverse mortgage it held filed suit against HUD and the loan servicer. The servicer’s email system had been compromised and bad actors sent a fraudulent payoff statement to the title companies when conducting a sale of the subject property.