Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees’ work computers.
In a regulatory filing, the jeans maker said the intruders accessed and exfiltrated what it described only as “certain corporate information.”
Levi’s said it spotted the intrusion, kicked off its incident response procedures, brought in outside cybersecurity experts, and managed to cut off the unauthorized access. Its investigation remains ongoing.
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Source: The Register News
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