Software company CircleCi confirms hackers stole data of some customers

Software company CircleCi, whose products are popular with developers and software engineers, has confirmed that some customers’ data were stolen in a data breach last month.

Although the employee’s access was secured with two-factor authentication, the company said that the intruder gained access through a laptop that was infected with malware, reports TechCrunch.

This vulnerable system allowed the theft of session tokens, which were used to keep the employee logged in to specific applications.

The company accepted responsibility for the breach, labelling it a “systems failure” and added that its antivirus software failed to find the malware on the employee’s laptop that was stealing tokens.