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Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward
2024-06-24 02:14

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Los Angeles Unified confirms student data stolen in Snowflake account hack
2024-06-21 21:09

The Los Angeles Unified School District has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole student and employee data by breaching the company's Snowflake account. On June 18, the threat actor known as 'Sp1d3r, who is selling data from previous SnowFlake attacks, also began selling the data of Los Angeles Unified for $150,000, claiming they stole it from SnowFlake.

YetiHunter: Open-source threat hunting tool for Snowflake environments
2024-06-14 10:26

Cloud identity protection company Permiso has created YetiHunter, a threat detection and hunting tool companies can use to query their Snowflake environments for evidence of compromise. Cloud-based data storage and analytics company Snowflake has recently stated that attackers have accessed accounts of some of its customers by leveraging compromised credentials.

Mandiant Report: Snowflake Users Targeted for Data Theft and Extortion
2024-06-12 19:34

A new report from Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, reveals that a financially motivated threat actor named UNC5537 collected and exfiltrated data from about 165 organizations' Snowflake customer instances. Snowflake is a cloud data platform used for storing and analyzing large volumes of data.

Lessons from the Snowflake Breaches
2024-06-12 11:25

Last week, the notorious hacker gang, ShinyHunters, sent shockwaves across the globe by allegedly plundering 1.3 terabytes of data from 560 million users. This colossal breach, with a price tag of...

Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace
2024-06-11 18:01

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Pure Storage confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack
2024-06-11 12:48

Pure Storage, a leading provider of cloud storage systems and services, confirmed on Monday that attackers breached its Snowflake workspace and gained access to what the company describes as telemetry information. "Following a thorough investigation, Pure Storage has confirmed and addressed a security incident involving a third party that had temporarily gained unauthorized access to a single Snowflake data analytics workspace," the storage company said.

Snowflake Breach Exposes 165 Customers' Data in Ongoing Extortion Campaign
2024-06-11 06:52

As many as 165 customers of Snowflake are said to have had their information potentially exposed as part of an ongoing campaign designed to facilitate data theft and extortion, indicating the...

Snowflake customers not using MFA are not unique – over 165 of them have been compromised
2024-06-11 03:27

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The number of known Snowflake customer data breaches is rising
2024-06-10 12:44

US-based Snowflake is a cloud data storage and analytics company with 9,800+ global customers, including Mastercard, Honeywell, Pfizer, Wolt, Adobe, and others. Ten days ago, it was revealed that a threat actor has been stealing data from organizations that use the Snowflake cloud-based platform, and that the attacks began in April 2024.