Analytics behemoth Mixpanel has come under growing scrutiny after admitting to a cybersecurity incident that affected some of its clients and divulged little in the way of details. The scant initial statement, delivered on the eve of a holiday weekend, provided no information about how far the incident spread, what kind of data was compromised, or what might have caused the breach — a void that was soon filled by agitated customers and security watchers.
OpenAI, a Mixpanel customer, later reported that data had been grabbed from the systems of Mixpanel itself, including user-provided names, email addresses, an approximate location harvested from IP numbers, plus details about users’ devices like their operating system and browser version. The incident did not affect ChatGPT end users, OpenAI said, and the company has stopped using Mixpanel.
What Mixpanel Has Said So Far About the Breach Details
The chief executive of Mixpanel conceded that unauthorized access was discovered and the company moved to “remove” that access. The company did not specify the intrusion vector, how many tenants were compromised, dwell time, or if data was siphoned out at scale. That leaves some pretty big holes in the risk-assessment process of a platform that serves about 8,000 corporate customers.
Key unknowns include what exactly was taken and how systems were targeted; whether tenant environments were segmented and shared infrastructure isolated customers from one another to prevent cross-cust
Source: https://www.findarticles.com/key-questions-remain-after-mixpanel-data-breach/
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