Security News > 2022 > February > Exposed corporate credentials threatening the pharma sector

Constella Intelligence released a report which includes new and additional findings pertaining to exposures, breaches, and leakages within the pharma sector, specifically focusing on employees and executives from the top twenty pharma companies on the Fortune Global 500 list.

This report uncovers the widespread prevalence of breaches and exposures related to the corporate credentials of employees and executives in the pharma sector, detailing the serious risks emerging from exposed sensitive data that negatively impact customers, employees, executives, brands, public health, and the healthcare system.

Pharma sector breaches and exposures Over 4.5M exposed records were identified from nearly 10K breaches and leakages exposing the corporate credentials of employees from the top twenty Global Fortune 500 pharma companies between 2018 and 2021.

Nearly two-thirds of breaches and leakages in the pharma sector since 2018 include personally identifiable information, with the most common attributes being email, password, name, username, phone number, address, date of birth, and credit card information.

A sample of 78 executives from top pharma companies found that 58% of executives have had their corporate credentials exposed in a third-party breach or leakage since 2018.

Approximately 59% of total breaches and 76% of total exposed records identified in the report occurred since 2020, signaling both are escalating in the pharma sector at an alarming rate.

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