Japanese car giant Nissan has confirmed losing sensitive data on thousands of people as a result of a third-party supply chain attack.
In a press release, the company said the recent attack on Red Hat affected its customers, as well, as the latter was commissioned by Nissan to develop a customer management system for one of its sales companies – Nissan Fukuoka Sales Co. In late September, Red Hat detected unauthorized access which, as was later determined, resulted in the theft of hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive data from 28,000 private GitLab repositories.
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