Major Data Breach at Leading Fintech Company Exposes Millions of Customers' Information
The Incident The circumstances surrounding the data breach unfolded on a typical Tuesday morning at 9:00 AM when the company’s IT team received an alert from their security monitoring system indicating a potential anomaly in the network traffic. Further investigation revealed that an unauthorized third-party had gained access to the company’s database, compromising sensitive information of millions of customers. The affected customer data included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and financial information such as bank account numbers and credit card details....