American leisure large Paramount World disclosed a knowledge breach after its programs received hacked and attackers gained entry to personally identifiable info (PII).
Paramount stated in breach notification letters signed by Nickelodeon Animation Studio EVP Brian Keane despatched to affected people that the attackers had entry to its programs between Could and June 2023.
“Based mostly on our investigation, the private info might have included your identify, date of start, Social Safety quantity or different government-issued identification quantity (corresponding to driver’s license quantity or passport quantity) and data associated to your relationship with Paramount,” the mass media large informed impacted individuals.
After discovering the incident, the corporate took steps to safe impacted programs and began an investigation to ascertain the extent and scope of the breach.
Paramount additionally employed a cybersecurity knowledgeable to assist examine the assault and is collaborating with regulation enforcement brokers as a part of an investigation.
It stated it is also upgrading safety measures to make sure that related incidents won’t reoccur.
Information breach affected lower than 100 individuals
“We did examine an incident the place we discovered that an unauthorized get together accessed sure recordsdata from our programs. Upon discovery of the unauthorized exercise, we took swift motion to establish and deal with the incident,” a Paramount spokesperson informed BleepingComputer.
“The private info of lower than 100 people might have been accessed by the unauthorized get together and people people and the related authorities have been notified.”
Paramount is but to disclose if the affected persons are workers or prospects (e.g., Paramount+ subscribers).
Whereas no different particulars relating to the safety breach have been supplied, BleepingComputer has discovered that this was not a ransomware assault and it was not linked to Clop’s current wave of MoveIT information theft assaults.
Paramount is a number one leisure and streaming firm whose portfolio features a lengthy listing of community, studio, and streaming manufacturers corresponding to CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Footage, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, and Paramount+.
It additionally boasts over 4.3 billion subscribers throughout its companies in additional than 180 nations.Â
