"Companies Impacted by Mailchimp Data Breach Warn Their Customers"

Multiple organizations have been hit by the recent Mailchimp data breach, with some already notifying their customers. Mailchimp, a popular email marketing and newsletter creation platform, revealed facing a data breach that exposed the personal information of 133 customers. The threat actors targeted employees and contractors at the company in order to gain access to an internal support and account administration tool. On January 11, the Mailchimp Security team discovered an unauthorized actor attempting to get access to one of the tools used by Mailchimp customer-facing teams for customer support and account administration. The unauthorized actor carried out a social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees and contractors, gaining access to some Mailchimp accounts using employee credentials collected in the attack. WooCommerce, FanDuel, and the Solana Foundation are among the companies affected. This article continues to discuss the Mailchimp data breach and what impacted companies have revealed about the incident. 

Security Affairs reports "Companies Impacted by Mailchimp Data Breach Warn Their Customers"