DigitalOcean Customer Billing Data Exposed in Security Breach

Apr 28, 2021 @ 5:46 pm

breach, digitalocean, docn, Hacked, Security

DigitalOcean (DOCN) acknowledged today that it has informed some customers that DO had “confirmed an unauthorized exposure of details associated with the billing profile on your DigitalOcean account.”

DO has since fixed the security flaw that lead to this unauthorized access, which happened between April 9 and April 22. A copy of the email to customers is available on Twitter.

The information leaked includes

Billing names
Billing addresses
Last four of payment card
Payment card expiry date
Name of the issuing back

Passwords and access credentials were not leaked.

DigitalOcean went public in March 2021.

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