Security News > 2021 > February > Antivirus Firm Emsisoft Discloses Data Breach

Antivirus solutions provider Emsisoft revealed last week that a third-party had accessed a publicly exposed database containing technical logs.

The database was initially exposed on January 18, 2021, and remained so until the data breach was identified, on February 3.

The affected system was used for evaluation and benchmarking of the storage and management of log data generated from Emsisoft products and services.

One of the databases was made accessible to unauthorized third parties, and at least one "Individual accessed some or all of the data contained within that database."

The 14 customer email addresses that were stored in the database, the antivirus firm said, were included in the scan logs because malicious emails were detected in the users' email clients.

"Also, our traffic logs indicate that only parts of the affected database were accessed and not the entire database. However, due to technical limitations it's impossible to determine exactly which data rows were accessed," the antivirus provider revealed.

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