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Massive Ticketmaster, Santander data breaches linked to Snowflake cloud storage
Hundreds of other companies could be affected.
As spotted by Bleeping Computer, an investigation from cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock reports that a bad actor gained access to Ticketmaster and Santander by using the stolen credentials of a single Snowflake employee. According to Hudson Rock, the hacker bypassed the authentication service Okta using these credentials and then generated session tokens to obtain a trove of information from Snowflake. The threat actor involved appears to be a hacking group called ShinyHunters, which attempted to sell Ticketmaster’s data on the dark web for $500,000, according to Bleeping Computer.
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