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Palo Alto Networks Third-Party Breach (November 2019)

📅 2019-11-01 🏢 not disclosed
Primary Source ↗

Incident Details

Third-Party Vendor Exposes Data of Palo Alto Employees. Cybersecurity firm’s employees affected by third-party data breach. American cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has suffered a data breach after a third-party vendor accidentally published personal data regarding the firm’s employees online.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
not disclosed
Supply Chain Attack
✅ Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2019-11-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2019-11-29 Publicly disclosed