Email marketing platform Mailchimp hacked
The company said that hackers had infiltrated their systems using an internal tool and stole data of more than 100 of the service's clients
Email marketing platform, Mailchimp, has confirmed that it was a victim of a hack. The infiltration was reportedly conducted using an internal tool and the company says the hackers managed to steal data from more than hundred of its clients.
While the company disclosed the breach on Monday, initial reports of the hacks had sprung up over the weekend. Cryptocurrency wallet Trezor tweeted a day before the disclosure that MailChimp had confirmed the hack and they were trying to determine how many email id's were affected.
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MailChimp's Chief Information Security Officer Siobhan Smyth told The Verge that the company first found the breach on March 26th, when it detected an unauthorised use of an internal tool, provided to the company's customer support and administrative teams.
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