Oh, snap! Shutterfly suffers data breach on internal test environment

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Shutterfly notified employees and former employees their data may have been compromised, according to a filing with the Office of the Attorney General for California. The filing states:

On March 20, 2018, we learned that a Shutterfly employee’s credentials were used without authorization to access our Workday test environment on January 11, 2018. We do not yet know if unauthorized access occurred at other times.

“This test environment is used by a limited number of employees to develop, test and preview Workday functionality before it goes live. As soon as we were made aware, our security team promptly implemented additional security measures. We do not believe that the security of the Workday service was compromised.

According to Enterprise Times, no confidential information was taken.

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Gary Pageau is principal of InfoCircle LLC, continuing his marketing communications career. InfoCircle LLC is a marketing and communications consulting firm, specializing in business-to-business markets. For nearly 25 years, he was with PMA International, serving most recently as Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit, education and corporate relations department.