FanDuel says user data possibly stolen in recent MailChimp breach

Date:
Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:57:48 +0000

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FanDuel warns users to watch out for phishing attacks after names and email addresses were accessed.

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Sensitive data belonging to the FanDuel users was compromised in the recent MailChimp data breach, the of sports betting site has told customers.

An email sent to FanDuel customers confirmed their full names and email addresses were accessed as a consequence of the MailChimp cyberattack, and warning them to stay vigilant against potential phishing attacks.

"Recently, we were informed by a third-party technology vendor that sends transactional emails on behalf of its clients like FanDuel that they had experienced a security breach within their system that impacted several of their clients," BleepingComputer cited a FanDuel 'Notice of Third-Party
Vendor Security Incident'. Passwords are safe

"On Sunday evening, the vendor confirmed that FanDuel customer names and
email addresses were acquired by an unauthorized actor. No customer
passwords, financial account information, or other personal information was acquired in this incident."

While FanDuel didnt name the vendor in the notification, it later confirmed
to media that it was referring to MailChimp.

The company also added that as this wasnt a breach of its own internal systems, sensitive information including passwords, financial account information, or other personal information was not accessed.

While just getting peoples names and emails might not be much, its enough for a phishing attack which could be more devastating, and could result in people losing access to valuable accounts, private data, and possibly even money
from their devices and endpoints . Now, FanDuel is warning its users to keep both eyes open: Read more

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"Remain vigilant against email "phishing" attempts claiming an issue with
your FanDuel account that requires providing personal or private information to resolve the problem," the notification further claims. "FanDuel will never email customers directly and request personal information to resolve an issue."

FanDuel also urged its customers to regularly update their passwords, and to make sure those passwords are strong and not used on other platforms at the same time. Furthermore, it told everyone to activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) if they handt already done so. Check out the best ID theft protection solutions

Via: BleepingComputer



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