A suspect in the wave of data breaches on Snowflake customers has been arrested in Canada. Over the summer, 165 companies were hacked through their Snowflake cloud.
Canadian authorities confirm the arrest of the suspect, who was arrested on Oct. 30. The man is suspected of being behind a series of data breaches of Snowflake customers. He will be extradited to the United States, where he will appear in court.
165 victims
Last summer, at least 165 companies suffered data breaches. Among them were large-scale incidents, such as a hack at Ticketmaster in which data from 560 million accounts were captured. The affected companies had one thing in common: They were Snowflake customers.
To be clear, the data breach was not the result of a hack on Snowflake’s part. The affected customers were found to have inadequately secured their Snowflake accounts. Snowflake accounts are an easy target, especially if they are poorly secured, because it is precisely Snowflake’s intent to serve as a central location for all users’ corporate data.
The only thing Snowflake can be blamed for in this case is that it did not sufficiently encourage customers to properly secure their accounts. MFA security was available, but was not mandated. This has since been changed.
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