Security News > 2020 > November > Sophos alerts customers of info exposure after security breach
British cybersecurity and hardware company Sophos has emailed a small group of customers to alert them that their personal information was exposed following a security breach discovered on Tuesday.
"On November 24, 2020, Sophos was advised of an access permission issue in a tool used to store information on customers who have contacted Sophos Support," the company said in the notification email.
"As a result, some data from a small subset of Sophos customers was exposed. We quickly fixed the issue."
Sophos did not provide any information on who discovered and disclosed the insecure storage tool or on the exact number of customers who had their personal info exposed due to this security breach.
Update: A Sophos spokesperson told BleepingComputer that only "a small subset was affected in no specific region" and that "Sophos quickly fixed the issue."
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