{"id":89346,"date":"2023-01-15T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89346"},"modified":"2023-01-15T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T23:50:06","slug":"89346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=89346","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached<\/a><\/p>\n

Thousands of Norton LifeLock customers had their accounts compromised in recent weeks, potentially allowing criminal hackers access to customer password managers, the company revealed in a recent data breach notice.<\/p>\n

In a notice to customers, Gen Digital, the parent company of\u00a0Norton LifeLock<\/a>, said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack \u2014 where previously exposed or breached credentials are used to break into accounts on different sites and services that share the same passwords \u2014 rather than a compromise of its systems. It\u2019s why\u00a0two-factor authentication<\/a>, which Norton LifeLock\u00a0offers<\/a>, is recommended, as it blocks attackers from accessing someone\u2019s account with just their password.<\/p>\n

The company said it found that the intruders had compromised accounts as far back as December 1, close to two weeks before its systems detected a \u201clarge volume\u201d of failed logins to customer accounts on December 12.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn accessing your account with your username and password, the unauthorized third party may have viewed your first name, last name, phone number, and mailing address,\u201d the data breach notice said. The notice was sent to customers that it believes use its password manager feature, because the company cannot rule out that the intruders also accessed customers\u2019 saved passwords.<\/p>\n

Gen Digital said it sent notices to about 6,450 customers whose accounts were compromised.<\/p>\n

Norton LifeLock provides identity protection and cybersecurity services. It\u2019s the latest incident involving the theft of customer passwords of late. Earlier this year, password manager giant LastPass\u00a0confirmed a data breach<\/a>\u00a0in which intruders compromised its cloud storage and stole millions of customers\u2019 encrypted password vaults. In 2021, the company behind a popular enterprise password manager called Passwordstate was hacked to push a\u00a0tainted software update<\/a>\u00a0to its customers, allowing the cybercriminals to\u00a0steal customers\u2019 passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That said, password managers are still widely recommended by security professionals for generating and storing unique passwords, so long as the appropriate precautions and protections are put in place to limit the fallout in the event of a compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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