A data breach at analytics giant Mixpanel leaves a lot of open questions


A cybersecurity incident at analytics provider Mixpanel announced just hours before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend could set a new standard for how not to announce a data breach.

To recap: In a bare bones blog post last Wednesday, Mixpanel chief executive Jen Taylor announced that the company had detected an unspecified security incident on November 8 that affected some of its customers, but didn’t say how they were affected, nor how many, only that Mixpanel had taken a range of security actions to “eradicate unauthorized access.”

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