Reindeer Suffers Massive Data Breach Affecting 300,000 Users

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Cybersecurity experts at WizCase discovered a large-scale data breach affecting Reindeer, a collaborator of Tiffany & Co, Patrón Tequila, and other companies, according to E Hacking News. 

The organization, led by Ata Hakçil, discovered that the breach exposed personal information such as names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. Cybersecurity experts believe a S3 bucket with a false configuration that belonged to Reindeer was compromised. 

Valtix CEO Douglas Murray, said of the incident, “The leaked data dates from May 2007-February 2012. The public cloud brings a whole host of new issues to which organizations are still adapting. The case of the Reindeer breach raises serious questions about the shared responsibility model and certainly highlights the need for a layered defense. When it comes to PaaS services, like S3,…

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