Norton LifeLock – the company that promises to keep you cybersafe – discovered an unauthorized third party trying to log into a large swath of customer accounts.
The company is urging customers to change their passwords or risk being compromised.
Norton's legally required data breach notification was posted on the Office of the Vermont Attorney General’s webpage Friday afternoon.
The security software company first became aware of the incident on December 12, when intrusion detection systems alerted security teams of the unusual activity within the system.
This led them to realize that the customer accounts had been potentially compromised.
Norton traced the incident back to December 1.
By December 22, the investigation concluded the third party most likely obtained the large collection of usernames and passwords from another source, such as the dark web.
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