This is a relatively benign case but the same language is used in other breaches when people should be taking measures like freezing their credit or reviewing financial transactions.
This is a relatively benign case but the same language is used in other breaches when people should be taking measures like freezing their credit or reviewing financial transactions.
It's one thing to say "My car was stolen", and another to declare "I am unable to determine if it's en route to the Taliban."
The only thing that could happen with the data would be that it is exploited.
The only thing that happens to stolen cars is not going to the taliban.
These are not even similar in nature. They aren't saying "the data was stolen". They also aren't saying "the data was available for exploit we are unable to determine if that occured."
What if they never looked for evidence of unauthorized access? They wouldn't have any!
This is the same as modern science and medicine frequently using this academic phrase, no evidence, when what they mean is that there has been no investigation.
Another thing to mention would be how long in the past you were able to look. E.g. in this case they have found out that the bug was introduced in 2021, were they able to inspect logs covering all of that period or did they only had limited logs/other evidence so it's impossible to know whether anyone used this opportunity or not?
Nothing would have stopped someone from using it. Probably best to assume that they have.
This will be read by optimistically 1% of people, the rest will just catch the summary. This way, you at least get to write the summary.