Security News > 2021 > January > Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach

Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers' data.

Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform.

Today, Ubiquiti began emailing customers to change their passwords and enable 2FA after an attacker hacked their systems hosted at a third-party cloud provider.

"We recently became aware of unauthorized access to certain of our information technology systems hosted by a third party cloud provider. We have no indication that there has been unauthorized activity with respect to any user's account," Ubiquiti emailed customers.

"We are not currently aware of evidence of access to any databases that host user data, but we cannot be certain that user data has not been exposed. This data may include your name, email address, and the one-way encrypted password to your account. The data may also include your address and phone number if you have provided that to us," the email continued.

Over the weekend, Ubiquiti suffered a widespread outage to their UniFi cloud management platform that prevented users from using the web and mobile apps or manage their devices.

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