Security News > 2023 > January > FanDuel discloses data breach caused by recent MailChimp hack

Last Thursday, FanDuel emailed customers to warn them that the threat actors acquired their names and email addresses during the MailChimp breach.

"Recently, we were informed by a third-party technology vendor that sends transactional emails on behalf of its clients like FanDuel that they had experienced a security breach within their system that impacted several of their clients," reads a FanDuel 'Notice of Third-Party Vendor Security Incident' seen by BleepingComputer.

FanDuel also stressed that this was not a breach of their systems or FanDuel user accounts and that the hackers did not acquire "Passwords, financial account information, or other personal information" during the breach.

FanDuel urges customers to "Remain vigilant" against phishing attacks and attempted account takeovers after their data was exposed in this recent breach.

"Remain vigilant against email"phishing" attempts claiming an issue with your FanDuel account that requires providing personal or private information to resolve the problem," warns the FanDuel security incident email.

Many account compromises are caused by using the same credentials at FanDuel as other sites then suffer data breaches.

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