Macmillan suffered a data breach after an unauthorized party was able to bypass its data security system and gain access to sensitive consumer information on the company’s computer system.
The breach compromised the consumer names, addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and financial account information of about 1,193 victims.
Macmillan took all affected servers offline and began investigating the incident and sent out data breach letters to all affected parties.
Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/macmillan-reports-data-breach-leaking-4086648/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/macmillan
"id": "mac224781222",
"linkid": "macmillan",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2022",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1193,
'industry': 'Publishing',
'name': 'Macmillan',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized access to data security system',
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1193,
'personally_identifiable_information': True,
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Consumer names',
'Addresses',
'Social Security numbers',
'Driver’s license numbers',
'Financial account information']},
'description': 'Macmillan suffered a data breach after an unauthorized party '
'was able to bypass its data security system and gain access '
'to sensitive consumer information on the company’s computer '
'system.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Consumer names',
'Addresses',
'Social Security numbers',
'Driver’s license numbers',
'Financial account information']},
'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Sent out data breach letters to all '
'affected parties'],
'containment_measures': ['Took all affected servers offline']},
'threat_actor': 'Unauthorized party',
'title': 'Macmillan Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}