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When the media wrongly implicates you in a third-party data breach

Written by Kelly White, Founder and CEO, RiskRecon | Nov 1, 2018 1:03:00 PM

When your vendor gets breached, you might be dragged into the mess by media even if your data was not compromised. Consider the recent case of [24]7.ai data breach.

On April 4, 2018, online chat application vendor [24]7.ai publicly reported that they had “an incident potentially affecting the online customer payment information of a small number of our client companies…” Shortly afterwards, well-known corporations Delta, Sears, Kmart and Best Buy released statements acknowledging that their customer data was impacted by this breach.