Security News

US indicts Snowflake hackers who extorted $2.5 million from 3 victims
2024-11-13 18:52

The Department of Justice has unsealed the indictment against two suspected Snowflake hackers, who breached more than 165 organizations using the services of the Snowflake cloud storage company. [...]

Here's what we know about the suspected Snowflake data extortionists
2024-11-12 21:10

A Canadian and an American living in Turkey 'walk into' cloud storage environments… Two men allegedly compromised what's believed to be multiple organizations' Snowflake-hosted cloud environments,...

Alleged Snowflake attacker gets busted by Canadians – politely, we assume
2024-11-11 03:28

Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the...

Suspect behind Snowflake data-theft attacks arrested in Canada
2024-11-05 15:20

Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of having stolen the data of hundreds of millions after targeting over 165 organizations, all of them customers of cloud storage company Snowflake. [...]

Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Customer Breach and Extortion Attacks
2024-11-05 05:08

Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier...

Snowflake slams 'more MFA' button again – months after Ticketmaster, Santander breaches
2024-09-16 16:45

Now it's the default for all new accounts Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users' cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts.…

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert
2024-07-13 15:04

Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security. From more than 100 million people hit by the staggering AT&T Snowflake storage account intrusion, to the latest marketing claims of AI coming to save our systems from attacks, we've packed a decent amount into 15 minutes - and you can replay our discussion below.

Advance Auto Parts: 2.3M people's data accessed when crims broke into our Snowflake account
2024-07-11 13:15

Advance Auto Parts' CISO just revealed for the first time the number of individuals affected when criminals broke into its Snowflake instance - a hefty 2.3 million. Steiger's letter also said Advance Auto Parts became aware of the intrusion on May 23, but now understands that the cybercriminal(s) behind the attack maintained access to its Snowflake instance between April 14 and May 24.

Snowflake lets admins make MFA mandatory across all user accounts
2024-07-10 16:45

A month after incident response giant Mandiant suggested the litany of data thefts linked to Snowflake account intrusions had the common component of lacking multi-factor authentication controls, the cloud storage and data analytics company is offering a mandatory MFA option to admins. The general availability of Snowflake Trust Center was also announced concurrently - a framework for customers to monitor compliance with the MFA policies Snowflake hopes will be applied more broadly.

Neiman Marcus confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack
2024-06-25 14:43

Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers attempted to sell the company's database stolen in recent Snowflake data theft attacks.In a data breach notification filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, the company says that the breach impacted 64,472 people.