Breach

Here’s three lessons from all the brand attacks over the summer.

Brute-force attack aimed to access preference files stored in backup for future use by bad actors.

Major South Korean credit card provider Lotte Card had data from 2.97 million users, or nearly a third of its subscribers, compromised following a cyberattack, The Korea Herald reports.

Infosecurity Magazine reports that almost 194,000 individuals were confirmed by New York Blood Center, a major U.S. independent blood bank, to have had their data stolen following a breach of its internal systems in January.

More than 850,000 individuals have been impacted by separate data breaches in three healthcare providers across the U.S., The Register reports.

Major U.S. luxury jewelry maker Tiffany & Co. disclosed that more than 2,500 of its customers had their data stolen following a cyberattack against its systems in May, Cybernews reports.

Intrusions exploiting stolen Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens were claimed by the ShinyHunters hacking operation, also known as UNC6040, to have resulted in the theft of more than 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 organizations, according to BleepingComputer.

CyberScoop reports that organizations using SonicWall firewalls had their configuration files compromised following an attack against the company's MySonicWall.com platform.