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Even cybersecurity companies spill data and passwords

By Danny Palmer for ZDNet
Friday, September 11, 2020

Compromised servers, social engineering and password re-use are among the reasons for data spillages.

"The cases really vary across the victims, ranging from compromised servers that were apparently forgotten by the victims, to targeted attacks against employees leveraging social engineering and phishing. A considerable number of incidents stems from third parties where employees of the victims were using their professional email addresses to sign in," Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of Immuniweb told ZDNet.

Researchers were able to uncover over 600,000 records containing plain text credentials or personal information. Read Full Article


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