{"id":16904,"date":"2020-11-27T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=16904"},"modified":"2020-11-27T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T05:03:40","slug":"sophos-informiert-kunden-ber-datenschutzvorfall-nov-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/11\/27\/sophos-informiert-kunden-ber-datenschutzvorfall-nov-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos informs customers about data protection incident (Nov. 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]UK company Sophos has informed a limited number of customers by email of a data breach. The incident is said to have resulted in the loss of personal data from the affected individuals.<\/p>\n

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Sophos is a UK cyber security and hardware company which was acquired some time ago by financial investor Bravo (see Sophos acquired by Thoma Bravo<\/a>). Here in the blog I occasionally report about Sophos products (see the link list at the end of the article).<\/p>\n

Now there seems to have been a privacy incident that Bleeping Computer reports about here<\/a>. According to the following text, Sophos has sent an email to a small group of customers informing them that their personal information has been disclosed following a security vulnerability discovered on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access permission issue in a tool used to store information on customers who have contacted Sophos Support. As a result, some data from a small subset of Sophos customers was exposed. We quickly fixed the issue. <\/p>\n

Your information was exposed, but due to remediation measures we have taken, your data is no longer exposed. Specifically, first name, last name, email address and, where provided, a contact phone numer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sophos claims that this issue has been resolved quickly. Sophos does not provide a number, but writes from a smaller number of people who had contacted support. This group of people had been informed by email. No specific region is mentioned that could be affected. <\/p>\n

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