Cyberattack at Software Developer Flash Charm

March 5, 2026

INCIDENT

Austin, Texas-based B2B software developer, Flash Charm, Inc., which does business as Idera, suffered a cyberattack in August and is now letting victims know their personally identifiable information ended up stolen in the hack.
“On October 31, 2025, we detected that an unauthorized party gained access to a third-party file-hosting system,” the company said in a letter to victims. “The access ended up confined to this third-party file-hosting system and did not extend to any of our products or other systems.”
As a result of the August 23 attack, the company took immediate containment steps, notified federal law enforcement, and worked with leading forensics teams to investigate the matter.

Incident Date

August 23, 2025

Estimated Cost

Unknown at this time

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source

No threat source identified