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From data security darling to cyber fall guy, Monzo experiences a breach of its own

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Dissent

Finextra reports:

After basking in the glow of exposing the Ticketmaster data breach last week, digital challenger bank Monzo has itself become the victim of a data leakage that saw the personal details of some 20,000 customers lifted from third party survey firm Typeform.

[…]
Monzo says the attackers found a weakness in Typeform’s security, gaining access to data backups for surveys conducted before 3 May 2018.
Read more on Finextra.

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