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The Week in Breach News: 11/17/21 – 11/23/21
GoDaddy
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/22/godaddy-breach-million-accounts/
Exploit: Credential CompromiseGoDaddy: Web Hosting Provider
Risk to Business: 1.527= Severe
GoDaddy has reported a data breach that may impact more than 1 million customers who use the service for WordPress hosting. The company detailed the incident in an SEC filing, declaring that it had detected unauthorized access to its systems where it hosts and manages its customers’ WordPress servers when someone used a compromised password for access around September 6. GoDaddy said it discovered the breach last week on November 17. The company warned that active customers had their sFTP credentials (for file transfers), and the usernames and passwords for their WordPress databases, which store all the user’s content, exposed in the breach. In some cases, the customer’s SSL (HTTPS) private key was exposed, which if abused could allow an attacker to impersonate a customer’s website or services. 1.2 million active and inactive managed WordPress users had their email addresses and customer numbers exposed in this incident.
Customers Impacted: 1.2 million
How It Could Affect Your Business: Third-party security risk is increasingly common in an interconnected world and building strong defenses helps protect against this unexpected danger.
California Pizza Kitchen
Exploit: HackingCalifornia Pizza Kitchen: Fast Casual Restaurant Chain
Risk to Business: 2.212=Severe
US casual dining chain California Pizza Kitchen has had a data security breach that impacts current and past employees. In a statement, the company disclosed that its systems were infiltrated by an unauthorized user on September 15. Those cybercriminals gained access to an undisclosed amount of data including employee records that contained at least employee names and SSNs.
Individual Risk: 1.907=Severe
In a filing with the Maine attorney general’s office, the company reported that 103,767 current and former employees had their names and Social Security numbers exposed.
How It Could Affect Your Business: A failure to secure employee data can be just as damaging and expensive as a failure to secure consumer data.
Lake County Board of Commissioners
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attempted-breach-ohio-election/2021/11/19/12417a4c-488c-11ec-b8d9-232f4afe4d9b_story.htmlExploit: Insider Incident
Lake County Board of Commissioners: Election Regulator
Risk to Business: 1.502=Severe
The Washington Post is reporting that a data security incident occurred at the Lake County, Ohio Board of Elections. The attempted breach occurred on May 4 inside the county office of John Hamercheck (R), president of the Lake County Board of Commissioners. In this incident, a private laptop was plugged into the county network in Hamercheck’s office, capturing routine network traffic. That information was then distributed at an August “cyber symposium” on election fraud hosted by MyPillow executive Mike Lindell. Officials say that no sensitive data was obtained. This is substantially similar to an incident in Colorado earlier this year. Data from the Colorado incident was circulated at the same event. The FBI is investigating the incident.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How It Could Affect Your Business: Insider threats can pop up anywhere and real havoc on an organization when they least expect it.
Cyprus – StripChat
https://therecord.media/adult-cam-site-stripchat-exposes-the-data-of-millions-of-users-and-cam-models/Exploit: Misconfiguration
StripChat: Adult Content Platform
Risk to Business: 1.615= Severe
StripChat, one of the world’s top 5 adult cam sites, has suffered a data breach that exposed more than its usual fare, including the personal data of millions of users and adult models. In a blunder discovered by security researchers, StripChat failed to properly configure an ElasticSearch database cluster, leaving data exposed for at least 3 days.
Individual Risk 1.802= Severe
Researchers listed the exposed data pertaining to 65 million users registered on the site including their username, email, IP address, ISP details, tip balance, account creation date, last login date and account status. Data for 421,000 models broadcasting on the site was also exposed including username, gender, studio ID, live status, tip menus/prices and strip scores. Other transaction data was also exposed.
How it Could Affect Your Business: The company hasn’t just failed at data security, at press time they had also failed to publicly disclose or acknowledge the incident, a sure path to a hefty GDPR fine.
Denmark – Vestas
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/wind-turbine-giant-vestas-confirms-data-breach-following-cybersecurity-incidentExploit: Ransomware
Vestas: Wind Turbine Manufacturer
Risk to Business: 1.512= Severe
The world’s largest supplier of wind turbines Vestas has announced that it has experienced a suspected ransomware incident. The company says that its initial investigation has determined that data has been compromised, although no specifics about that data were given. The company says that the incident forced the shutdown of IT systems and has damaged parts of Vestas’ internal IT infrastructure. Recovery has begun, and the company has stressed that the impact on its manufacturing, construction and service arms has been minimal.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Business: Ransomware and infrastructure components are going hand in hand these days, creating an elevated risk level for companies in infrastructure-related sectors.
Australia – Copyright Agency
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australias-copyright-agency-investigates-cyber-incident-572982
Exploit: HackingCopyright Agency: Royalty Collection Agency
Risk to Business: 1.595 = Extreme
Australia’s Copyright Agency has suffered a data breach The agency which distributes royalties to authors, photographers and other creators for the reuse of their text and images, notified members of the incident last Friday. No information is yet available about what data may have been impacted, but there’s a possibility that extensive personal and financial data may have been exposed for the 37,000 creators that it services.
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