Customers’ data of this cloud platform is exposed

Cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean has admitted that some of its customers’ personal information was exposed in a recent security incident disclosed by email marketing company Mailchimp.
DigitalOcean’s head of security Tyler Healy said in a blog post on Tuesday that On August 8, the company discovered that its Mailchimp account had been compromised as part of what “we suspect to be a wider Mailchimp security incident that affected their customers, targeted at crypto and blockchain”.
Mailchimp had earlier admitted a recent attack targeting its crypto-related users, but did not divulge more details.
From that Mailchimp incident, we suspect certain DigitalOcean customer email addresses may have been exposed. Out of an abundance of caution, we are currently sending email communications to those impacted.

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