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The Associated Press (AP) has disclosed a data breach affecting the legacy AP Stylebook website that led to phishing attacks against impacted customers, BleepingComputer reports. “On July 20, 2023, Stylebooks.com notified us that AP Stylebook customers had received phishing emails directing them to a fake website that imitated AP Stylebook to provide updated credit card information,” the AP said. “APS immediately engaged a cyber forensics firm to investigate the incident.

With organizations becoming increasingly digitally connected, a lack of visibility into their vendors’ security diligence has made exploiting these relationships a go-to tactic for cybercriminals. Fifty-four percent of publicly reported breaches in the last two years have been due to third parties, vendors, or suppliers, representing one of the greatest cybersecurity risks. Additionally, 98% of organizations have at least one vendor that’s had a breach in the last two years.

Nightfall has been named as a Leader in Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Sensitive Data Discovery, and Data Security in G2’s Fall ‘23 rankings. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all the customers and supporters who made this possible. This past season, the Nightfall team has been working tirelessly to innovate new ways to keep customers safe in the cloud.

Johnson and Johnson is a large-scale manufacturing company that provides pharmaceuticals and medical products to companies throughout the world. The organization also makes a variety of consumer products. The massive company has over 130,000 employees and generates over $94 Billion in annual revenue. The huge company suffered a recent data breach that exposed some of its employees via its healthcare services.