Automaker giant Stellantis says customers’ personal data stolen during breach

In Brief

Stellantis, the car-making elephantine down Chrysler, Fiat, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and different brands, has confirmed a information breach involving customers’ idiosyncratic information. 

In a statement published Sunday, Stellantis said it experienced a breach of a “third-party work provider’s level that supports our North American lawsuit work operations.” 

The connection said “contact information” was taken, but a institution spokesperson did not respond to TechCrunch’s questions astir what circumstantial types of lawsuit information were taken successful the breach. Stellantis has not said however galore customers it was notifying that their accusation was taken.

Bleeping Computer reports that Stellantis’ information breach is linked to a hack of its Salesforce database, citing the ShinyHunters hackers who took recognition for the breach.  

The hackers allegedly stole 18 cardinal lawsuit records from the database.  

Stellantis is the latest successful a database of hundreds of companies, including Cloudflare, Google, and Proofpoint, among others, who had information stolen successful a recent breach affecting Salesloft Drift, and a longer database of companies whose information was stolen from their Salesforce instances.

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