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TANGERINE DATA BREACH EXPOSES PERSONAL INFORMATION OF 230,000 CUSTOMERS

thecyberexpress.com2 min read

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Australian telco Tangerine suffered a data breach that resulted in 230,000 customers' personal information being exposed. The exposed information included full names, dates of birth, mobile numbers, postal addresses, email addresses, and Tangerine account numbers. Tangerine's CEO stated that the breach was caused by leaked credentials to a legacy customer database belonging to a contractor.