{"id":171220,"date":"2023-09-03T22:31:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/paramount-forever-21-data-breaches-set-stage-for-follow-on-attacks"},"modified":"2023-09-03T22:31:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T03:31:36","slug":"paramount-forever-21-data-breaches-set-stage-for-follow-on-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/paramount-forever-21-data-breaches-set-stage-for-follow-on-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Paramount, Forever 21 Data Breaches Set Stage for Follow-on Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paramount-forever-21-data-breaches-set-stage-for-follow-on-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of breaches have hit media giant Paramount Global and fashion purveyor Forever 21, exposing personally identifiable information for thousands of people in the latter\u2019s case and setting them up for a raft of follow-on attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In Paramount\u2019s case, the Hollywood bigwig disclosed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23932495-paramount_bcletteraug_data_breach_notification_letter\" target=\"_blank\">data breach notification letter<\/a> obtained by media that cyberattackers accessed PII for certain individuals for a month, between May and June of this year. The data included names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, driver\u2019s license numbers, passport numbers, and \u201cinformation related to [the individual\u2019s] relationship with Paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the data pertains to website members, employees, customers, or other profiles \u2014 or how many are affected. The data breach notification letter, penned by an operations executive at Nickelodeon Animation Studio, did not elaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of breaches have hit media giant Paramount Global and fashion purveyor Forever 21, exposing personally identifiable information for thousands of people in the latter\u2019s case and setting them up for a raft of follow-on attacks. In Paramount\u2019s case, the Hollywood bigwig disclosed in a data breach notification letter obtained by media that cyberattackers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}