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Chick-fil-A discloses data breach after credential stuffing attacks

22Jul

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Chick-fil-A discloses data breach after credential stuffing attacks

Following a wave of recent credential stuffing assaults, the American fast-food restaurant business Chick-fil-A is alerting an unspecified number of customers about a data breach. Chick-fil-A, which claims to be the third-largest quick-service restaurant chain in the US, has over 3,000 locations and offers catering services in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, the UK, and Singapore. The firm disclosed that it discovered the attacks after noticing unusual login activity to certain Chick-fil-A One accounts in data breach notification letters delivered to impacted people and submitted with many Attorney General offices. The attackers attacked Chick-fil-A's website and mobile app in June, as the company found out while looking into the incident. After conducting a thorough investigatio...

Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Customer Identity Cloud

Okta is alerting users to the possibility of credential stuffing attacks, which are masterminded by threat actors, against a cross-origin authentication functionality in Customer Identity Cloud (CIC). The Identity and access management (IAM) services provider stated, "We observed that the endpoints used to support the cross-origin authentication feature were being attacked via credential stuffing for a number of our customers." Commencing on April 15, 2024, the corporation reported that it "proactively" notified clients who had enabled the function of the questionable activities. The number of clients affected by the attacks was not disclosed. Credential stuffing is a cyberattack tactic when attackers try to log in to online services using a list of usernames and passwords read m...

Okta Warns of Unprecedented Surge in Proxy-Driven Credential Stuffing Attacks

The provider of identity and access management (IAM) services Okta has issued a warning over an increase in the "frequency and scale" of assaults known as credential stuffing that target online services. The company stated in an alert released on Saturday that "the broad availability of residential proxy services, lists of previously stolen credentials ('combo lists'), and scripting tools" are what are allegedly facilitating these unprecedented attacks, which have been noticed over the last month. The results expand upon a recent Cisco advice that warned of a global upsurge in brute-force assaults targeting several devices, including web application authentication interfaces, Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, and SSH services, since at least March 18, 2024. Talos said at th...