It’s the latest incident involving the theft of customer passwords of late. said that the likely culprit was a credential stuffing attack … rather than a compromise of its systems. Gen Digital said it sent notices to about 6,450 customers whose accounts were compromised. What’s the scale of the problem? Zack Whittaker knows-“ thousands of customer accounts breached”: NortonLifeLock underlines that the risk is especially large for those who use similar Norton account passwords and Password Manager master keys, allowing the attackers to pivot more easily. This could lead to the compromise of other online accounts, loss of digital assets, exposure of secrets, and more. … For customers utilizing the Norton Password Manager feature, the notice warns that the attackers might have obtained details stored in the private vaults.

Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully breached Norton Password Manager accounts. “ Could lead to the compromise of other online accounts” What’s the craic? Bill Toulas reports-“ NortonLifeLock warns that hackers breached Password Manager accounts”: Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.

These things come in threes. In today’s SB Blogwatch, we wonder who’s next. Plus it took 12 days to detect the breach and another 32 days to tell anyone. What use is a password manager that leaks your password? Seems that, like LastPass, NortonLifeLock did a lousy job of remediating weak master passwords.

NortonLifeLock is warning customers their passwords are loose. First LastPass, now this?

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