Nissan confirms customer data was involved in Red Hat security breach

Back in September, US software firm Red Hat suffered a security breach. The incident was not acknowledged until October, but even now the full impact of the breach is unfolding. Japanese car maker Nissan has just confirmed that it was indirectly affected by the Red Hat security breach. As a result of this, detailed contact information for thousands of customers were accessed by hackers. Nissan points out a number of things, including that no financial data was involved in the breach. Additionally, it seems that the number of impacted customers is limited to around 21,000, and these are all customers… [Continue Reading]