Canadian telecommunications provider Freedom Mobile suffered a supply-chain attack recently, in which it lost sensitive data on a yet undisclosed number of customers.
In a data breach notification letter posted on its website earlier this week, Freedom said hackers broke into an account of a subcontractor, through which they accessed personal information “of a limited number” of its customers. The breach was spotted on October 23, and the access was terminated.
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