PayPal support operations breached via Transcom
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Transcom WorldWide, PayPal support contractor, compromised with 40 employees and 704 user accounts exposed.
Transcom WorldWide, a third-party contractor providing customer support operations for PayPal, has been compromised. The breach exposed credentials for 40 employees and 704 user accounts, along with 666 third-party employee credentials. The attacker obtained an external attack surface of 112 exposed resources and obtained DNS records for the victim's domain. The incident was indexed by ransomware.live, indicating the compromise is publicly disclosed by threat actors. This represents a supply-chain style breach affecting a critical payment-processor support function, potentially exposing customer data and authentication credentials that could be leveraged for lateral movement into PayPal systems or fraudulent activity.
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Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/UGF5UGFsIHN1cHBvcnQgb3BlcmF0aW9ucyAoVHJhbnNjb20gV29ybGRXaWRlKUBOMG4=
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