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By Jasmin Jose | Updated: 26 August 2022 14:06 IST

Last Faces Data Breach; Company Says No s Taken: Details

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An unauthorised party gained access to portions of the Last development environment

Highlights

Unusual activity was detected within the Last development environment
Last products and services are operating normally now
Last has deployed containment and mitigation measures

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Last, a manager that is used by more than 33 million people, has been hacked after an unauthorised party stole the source code and proprietary information of the company recently by cracking into the developer environment. Last has assured that it doesn't believe any s were taken as a part of the breach, and the s wouldn't need to take additional action to secure their s. The manager has also confirmed that their products and services are operating normally.

The manager said in its recent blog post that some unusual activity was recently detected within portions of the Last development environment. As mentioned earlier, the company said that there was no evidence that the incident involved any access to customer data or encrypted vaults.

Last has concluded that an unauthorised party gained access to portions of the Last development environment through a single compromised developer . This gave the hacker access to portions of source code and certain proprietary Last technical information.

As mentioned earlier, Last has ensured that their products and services are operating normally as of now.

Karim Toubba , the CEO of Last, has said that in response to the incident, the company has deployed containment and mitigation measures. Last has also engaged a leading cybersecurity and forensics firm for the same. The manager has also achieved a state of containment and is said to see no further evidence of unauthorised activity.

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