Tag: customer data
How can companies deal with data overload?
Sanjaya Kumar, MD, is the CEO of cybersecurity company SureShield, Inc. Dr. Kumar has more than 25 years of healthcare compliance, risk management, and security experience. In an exclusive interview with Cyber Intelligence, he outlines the challenge presented by the current environment of data overload and some of the steps organizations should take to mitigate the associated risks from it.
Levi’s breach exposes 72k customer details
Over 72,000 US consumers may have had their account details compromised following a cyber-attack on denim clothing giant Levi Strauss & Co. Almost two weeks ago, on June 13, Levi’s spotted an unusual spike in activity on its consumer-facing website and immediately realized its users were under threat. “Our investigation showed characteristics associated with a “credential stuffing” attack where bad actor(s) who have obtained compromised account credentials from another source (such as a third-party data breach) then use a bot attack to test these credentials against another website – in this case www.levis.com,” said Levi’s in a published notice detailing the data breach.