{"id":560345,"date":"2024-09-13T07:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=560345"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T06:09:18","slug":"major-cybersecurity-company-suffers-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/560345-major-cybersecurity-company-suffers-data-breach.html","title":{"rendered":"Major cybersecurity company suffers data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. said Thursday that someone had broken into a \u201climited\u201d number of files that contained information related to some of its customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sunnyvale, California-based company, which sells network security solutions, said it has communicated directly with its customers on the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The firm\u2019s own operations and services weren\u2019t affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAn individual gained unauthorised access to a limited number of files stored on Fortinet\u2019s instance of a third-party cloud-based shared file drive, which included limited data related to a small number of Fortinet customers,\u201d Fortinet said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo date there is no indication that this incident has resulted in malicious activity affecting any customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortinet is only the latest security firm to be hit by a breach. Microsoft Corp., which is one of the largest cybersecurity service providers in the world, has been the target of a number of high-profile and damaging attacks that have drawn strong condemnation from the US government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hackers last year broke into Okta Inc., which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-29\/okta-says-hackers-stole-data-for-all-customer-support-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manages<\/a>\u00a0user authentication services for thousands of institutions, and stole information on all users of its customer support system. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortinet shares fell as much as 4.4% on the news to $73.29. Bleeping Computer reported on details of the breach earlier on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunnyvale, California-based company, which sells network security solutions, said it has communicated directly with its customers on the matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":560348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[72252,97031,22073,461],"class_list":["post-560345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cyberattacks","tag-data-breachers","tag-fortinet","tag-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560352,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560345\/revisions\/560352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}