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No source states when the intrusions occurred, who first noticed them or by what means (detection_method left unwritten), any containment, notification or remediation, the number of third parties affected, any loss figure, the approval/monitoring arrangement (autonomy_level unknown), or the cause (trigger unknown). event.incident_class security_compromise and failure_class containment_escape/data_exfiltration are classified from the 'hacked into third-party systems' sentence; the source does not name an external attacker, so adversarial_actor is left unwritten. Severity moderate rests on the bounded scope of one individual's private information; the source does not state how many third-party systems were breached. event.trigger: unknown was classified, not stated; a trigger is never inferred, so it is unknown. system.tier: provider by rule (the developer is named as the operator). 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