Cox Communications, a large cable company recently suffered a data breach incident in December 2021.
The attackers impersonated a Cox agent through a social engineering attack and managed to access the company's customer data.
The compromised data includes address, telephone number, Cox account number, usernames, and other personal information of the customers.
The company with the help of cyber security experts investigated the attack and secured its data from such future attacks and notified the affected customers of the breach.
Source: https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/cox-communications-data-breach/819008/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/cox-communications
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"linkid": "cox-communications",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2021",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Telecommunications',
'name': 'Cox Communications',
'size': 'Large',
'type': 'Corporation'}],
'attack_vector': 'Social Engineering',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Address',
'Telephone number',
'Cox account number',
'Usernames',
'Other personal information']},
'date_detected': 'December 2021',
'description': 'Cox Communications suffered a data breach incident in '
'December 2021 where attackers impersonated a Cox agent '
'through a social engineering attack and accessed customer '
'data.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Address',
'Telephone number',
'Cox account number',
'Usernames',
'Other personal information']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': 'Notified the affected customers of '
'the breach',
'incident_response_plan_activated': True,
'recovery_measures': 'Investigated the attack and secured its '
'data from such future attacks',
'third_party_assistance': 'Cyber security experts'},
'title': 'Cox Communications Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human vulnerability through impersonation'}