SNOWFLAKE CLAIMS SANTANDER AND TICKETMASTER BREACHES NOT ITS FAULT

Data cloud platform Snowflake denies claims that vulnerabilities in its system allowed the ShinyHunters hacking group to breach security and access customer details of both Santander Bank and Ticketmaster last month (May 2024). In a June 2 joint statement (1), Snowflake and the cybersecurity experts brought in to investigate the breach, CrowdStrike and Mandiant, underlined they had “not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform”. The breaches were also not linked to ...


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