Lidl Breached Through External Service Provider

What Happened

Customer names, birthdates, email addresses, phone numbers, and IDs stolen. Lidl's own infrastructure stayed intact. The data was stored by an external service provider handling customer information on their behalf.

How They Got In

Attackers gained access to a file stored by the contracted service provider. No detail on how, but the data was sitting in a vendor's environment with insufficient isolation and monitoring. One breach and customer data walks out.

The Pattern

48% of breaches now involve a third party. Lidl didn't know this vendor would be the weak link. Neither did the vendor. Neither company was watching.

What FrontierZero Catches

We give you the visibility over your whole external connections, both human and non-human. We see how they beahve and monitor it. Once they behave abnormally - log in at weird times, from new devices and browsers without VPN we notice you. We also flag all the identities without MFA and if their credentials have appeared on the dark web.

The Gap

You contract a vendor. You send them customer data. You assume they're handling it securely. You never check if unusual access is happening. You only find out when regulators call.

What You Need

Visibility into every external connection touching your data. Know what normal access looks like. Catch anomalies, like unusual access patterns, data copies, unexpected file access, before the data leaves.

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