An unauthorized party accessed two Cloud providers used by Gyft, a digital gift card website that compromised some of its customer's data.
The exposed information included the names, contact information, date of birth, gift card numbers, and even the login credentials.
The breach has put many people in financial threat gift card numbers would have been able to use them.
Source: https://blog.itgovernanceusa.com/blog/sensitive-data-swiped-in-gyft-data-breach
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/gyft
"id": "gyf11313522",
"linkid": "gyft",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2016",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Digital Gift Cards',
'name': 'Gyft',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access',
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'contact information',
'date of birth'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['names',
'contact information',
'date of birth',
'gift card numbers',
'login credentials']},
'description': 'An unauthorized party accessed two Cloud providers used by '
'Gyft, a digital gift card website that compromised some of '
"its customer's data. The exposed information included the "
'names, contact information, date of birth, gift card numbers, '
'and login credentials. The breach has put many people in '
'financial threat as gift card numbers would have been able to '
'use them.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'contact information',
'date of birth',
'gift card numbers',
'login credentials'],
'systems_affected': ['Cloud providers']},
'motivation': 'Financial Gain',
'title': 'Gyft Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}