Eduard Kovacs reports:
Japanese media giant Nikkei on Tuesday reported that hackers had gained access to employee Slack accounts, stealing information pertaining to thousands of individuals.
Nikkei, which is best known for major financial publications such as The Nikkei and Financial Times, said the incident involved malware stealing Slack credentials from an employee’s personal computer.
The credentials were then used to access employee Slack accounts, which enabled the attacker to steal information pertaining to employees and business partners.
An investigation showed that names, email addresses and chat histories belonging to over 17,000 of Nikkei’s Slack users were compromised.
Read more at Security Week.