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Freepik data breach: 8.3m users’ emails and hashed passwords compromised
Monday, August 24, 2020
Freepik Company, the company behind popular online brands Freepik and Flaticon, recently announced a data breach that involved hackers gaining access to the email addresses and hashed passwords of up to 8.3 million users.
Commenting on the breach suffered by Freepik, Ilia Kolochenko, Founder & CEO of ImmuniWeb, told TEISS that the reportedly hacked resource is used by a huge numbers of webmasters and programmers, many of whom have privileged, or even unlimited, access to the web applications and databases of their customers. Thus, cybercriminals will likely initiate large-scale password reuse attacks and phishing campaigns targeting careless and inattentive software developers.
"Given how many small law firms, financial and tax advisors entrust their data to these future-victims, we may a expect a spike in sophisticated, chained intrusions into large companies via their trusted third parties such as law firms and external advisors," he added. Read Full Article
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