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"The company denied there had been a breach of its data." This is about as serious a breach as it gets. To have (or claim) zero knowledge of it is pretty bad.
by ajsharp 6y ago
"The company denied there had been a breach of its data."
This is about as serious a breach as it gets. To have (or claim) zero knowledge of it is pretty bad.
If the details of the story are correct, it would imply the attackers had full database access. I would not be surprised to learn the attack vector was gaining a privileged user's credentials, similar to the Twitter hack.
- MattGaiser 6y agoWhat if the data is mostly faked with the rest scraped from phishing attacks? You can’t prove a negative very easily.
- andykx 6y agoIt is possible that they phished a few users (or used account details from another leak) and the rest of the data is BS. I don't think they're claiming zero knowledge. They're doing the exact opposite: they're saying they have complete knowledge, and that it simply didn't happen. I hope, for their sake, that they are correct.
- eli 6y agoIt's worth being precise here. They didn't deny there was a breach, they denied being aware of a breach. They didn't rule it out.