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Business data breaches overview:
- Who: Google Fi, Pepsi Bottling Ventures, Reddit, Weee! and the U.S. Marshals Service recently disclosed or confirmed data breaches, while Activision Blizzard has been accused of recently suffering a data breach.
- Why: The data breaches exposed company information and/or the private and personally identifiable information of consumers and/or employees.
- Where: The data breaches occurred nationwide.
Multiple businesses and a government agency recently disclosed or confirmed that they suffered from data breaches that the entities say may have exposed private and sensitive information.
Google Fi, Pepsi Bottling Ventures, Reddit, the U.S. Marshals Service and Weee!, an Asian and Hispanic grocery store, all disclosed breaches in the last few months.
Video game developer Activision Blizzard was also recently accused of suffering from a business data breach; however, the company called the event only a “SMS phishing attempt.”
Google Fi informs customers it suffered data breach that may have exposed private data
Google cell network provider Google Fi informed its customers last month that it suffered a data breach that may have exposed their private data.
Google Fi said it discovered the data breach after its primary network provider informed it of suspicious activity on a third-party support system holding a “limited amount” of its customers’ data.
The business data breach allowed bad actors to access information such as Google Fi customers’ phone numbers, account status, SIM serial card numbers and mobile service plan information, the company says.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures discloses December data breach that exposed personal information
Also last month, Pepsi Bottling Ventures disclosed that it suffered a data breach in December that exposed the personal information of either its customers or employees.
Pepsi Bottling Ventures says the data breach was caused by bad actors installing malware into some of its internal IT systems.
The data breach exposed full names, home addresses, financial account information, drivers license numbers and Social Security numbers, among other things.
Reddit says it suffered data breach that led to theft of documents and source code
Reddit also disclosed to the public last month that it suffered a data breach that led to the theft of documents and source code located within its internal business systems.
The data breach was the result of a phishing attack using a fake landing page that targeted Reddit employees, according to the company.
“After successfully obtaining a single employee’s credentials, the attacker gained access to some internal docs, code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems,” Reddit says in a security incident notice.
Weee! grocery store confirms business data breach impacting 1.1 million of its customers
Also last month, the Asian and Hispanic grocery store Weee! confirmed that it suffered from a data breach that led to the theft of private information belonging to 1.1 million of the store’s customers.
A hacker named Intelbroker posted the stolen database, which contained 1.1 million unique customer email addresses, on the Breached hacking and data breach forum.
Information exposed in the data breach included customers’ full names, email addresses, phone numbers, order notes and devices, among other things. Weee! says no payment information was compromised.
Activision Blizzard accused of data breach exposing employee info, release dates
Last month, consumers accused Activision Blizzard of suffering a data breach in December 2022 that allegedly exposed the private data of its employees and future release plans for the company’s Call of Duty franchise.
The cybersecurity research collective vx-underground revealed the alleged data breach in screenshots, which claimed the alleged incident was caused by a phishing attack that targeted an Activision employee with special network privileges.
Activision, meanwhile, chose not to directly respond to the posted screenshots, instead saying the company had quickly addressed and ultimately resolved what it called a “SMS phishing attempt.”
U.S. Marshals Service acknowledges it suffered data breach that may have exposed law enforcement info
Earlier this month, meanwhile, the U.S. Marshals Service acknowledged that it suffered a data breach in February that the government agency said may have exposed sensitive law enforcement information.
The U.S. Marshals said the data breach was the result of a ransomware attack against one of the agency’s standalone systems.
Information potentially exposed in the data breach includes administrative info and the personally identifiable information of certain U.S. Marshals employees, third parties and agency investigations.
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