Mailchimp Says It Was Hacked - Again (techcrunch.com) 11
Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed. From a report: It's the second time the company was hacked in the past six months. Worse, this breach appears to be almost identical to a previous incident. Mailchimp said in an unattributed blog post that its security team detected an intruder on January 11 accessing one of its internal tools used by Mailchimp customer support and account administration, though the company did not say for how long the intruder was in its systems, if known. Mailchimp said the hacker targeted its employees and contractors with a social engineering attack. The hacker then used those compromised employee passwords to gain access to data on 133 Mailchimp accounts, which the company notified of the intrusion. One of those targeted accounts belongs to e-commerce giant WooCommerce. In a note to customers, WooCommerce said it was notified by Mailchimp a day later that the breach may have exposed the names, store web addresses and email addresses of its customers, though it said no customer passwords or other sensitive data was taken.
133 Mailchimp accounts sounds harmless (Score:3)
But of course, since anyone who gets newsletters via MailChimp is the product and not the customer, this'll sum up to millions and millions of people's data, though I guess it'll mostly be email addresses...
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People sending news letters are the customers
NOT the members of the mailing lists.
Funny how this has happened twice (Score:5, Informative)
Since "security giant" Inutit bought them
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Intuit/Quicken doesn't do the money thing well anymore either
The "new and improved" quicken lost the ability to do transaction downloads for a week due to a centralized third party failure... Wait? My banking queries are now being sent to a third party?!
WTF!!!!!!!
It's almost as if (Score:2)
...a bunch of chimps work there.
is social engineering now considering "hacking"? (Score:1)
Is social engineering now considering "hacking"?
Clearly the login information provided was used to gain access - no "hacking" involved.
spammers (Score:5, Informative)
Spammers getting hacked by spammers so we can all get more spam. What a wonderful world.
WooCommerce? (Score:2)
I got the email from WooCommerce, use their ecomm system on a few sites..the weird thing about this is WooCommerce runs MailPoet - isn't that an email newsletter system?
So why is WooCommerce relying on MailChimp..???