Shadow’s Unlucky Strike: French Tech Company Falls Prey to Crafty Hacker, No Passwords or Bank Data Stolen
In a twist of irony, Shadow, a French tech company, fell victim to a social engineering attack, leading to a data breach. Despite a quick “Shadow Data Breach Response”, the hacker managed to whisk away customer info – names, emails, birthdays, and more. The silver lining? No passwords or banking data were stolen. Who doesn’t love a happy-ish ending?
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Shadow, a French tech company, has had an awkward run-in with a hacker, who, after a successful social engineering attack, ran off with customers' personal info. Despite Shadow's security team's "immediate action", the data thief managed to get his hands on customers' full names, email addresses, birthdays, billing addresses, and credit card expiry dates. Thankfully, the hacker didn't get his grubby hands on passwords or sensitive banking data. One might say Shadow was caught, well, in the shadows.Already a member? Log in here