Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack
Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data
Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees' work computers.
In a regulatory filing, the jeans maker said the intruders accessed and exfiltrated what it described only as "certain corporate information."
Levi's said it spotted the intrusion, kicked off its incident response procedures, brought in outside cybersecurity experts, and managed to cut off the unauthorized access. Its investigation remains ongoing.
There is some good news for anyone worried that their trouser-buying habits might now be circulating on the dark web: Levi's said its preliminary investigation indicates that no consumer data was affected.
The company also said the attack caused no disruption to its operations and, based on what it knows so far, isn't expected to have a material impact on its business. Affected parties and regulators will be notified...
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