The ShinyHunters ransomware group has claimed the theft of data containing 10 million records belonging to the Match Group and 14 million records from bakery-café chain Panera Bread.
The Match Group, that runs multiple popular online dating services like Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, and Hinge has confirmed a cyber incident and is investigating the data breach. Panera Bread also confirmed that an incident occurred and has alerted authorities. ShinyHunters seems to be gaining access through Single-Sign-On (SSO) platforms and using voice-cloning techniques, which has resulted in a growing number of breaches across different companies. However, not all of these breaches have the same impact.
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Source: Malwarebytes Labs
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