Aura, a company that sells identity theft protection, has confirmed a data breach that exposed roughly 900,000 customer records containing names and email addresses. The breach was carried out via a phone phishing attack by ShinyHunters, the same group behind high-profile hacks at AT&T and Salesforce.
Aura has confirmed a data breach that resulted in customer records being exposed. To be more specific, about 900,000 records were revealed containing names and email addresses.
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Now, this data breach sounds concerning. 900,000 records is a pretty big number, but it isn’t as bad as you might think. According to an update from Aura, they claimed that the records are from marketing lists. It came from a contact list from a company that Aura acquired five years ago.
The company also says that the breach did not leak any sensitive information.
Read more of Tyler Lee’s report at Android Headlines.
