H BitDefender, κατασκευάστρια εταιρεία λογισμικού προστασίας από ιούς, παραδέχθηκε ότι τα συστήματά της παραβιάστηκαν μετά από φήμες που ανέφεραν ότι κάποιος εκβίαζε τη Ρουμανική εταιρεία για ransom.
His name hacker who successfully attacked the security company is Detox Ransome and reportedly managed to steal BitDefender client data.
The hacker according to information reports that it was able to acquire and leak user names and passwords from Bitdefender. Unencrypted login belonged to some of the small business customers of the security company.
The hacker was asking for 15.000 dollars, in order not to reveal the data of the company's customers. At this time the data has already leaked.
Η Βitdefender δήλωσε πάντως ότι τα συστήματα της δεν είχαν παραβιαστεί αλλά ελήφθησαν πληροφορίες (!) και ότι υποψιάζεται ότι τα δεδομένα έπεσαν στα χέρια του εισβολέα από ένα account cloud που διαθέτει η ΒitDefender. στο Amazon.
Vitdefender said:
We recently found a potential security issue on a single server. We immediately started the research and found a unique application called a public cloud, which exposed a very limited number of usernames and passwords. Our investigation also revealed that there was no intrusion into our server, but a vulnerability that potentially allowed the exposure of a few user accounts and passwords.
The issue has been resolved immediately and additional security measures have been put in place to prevent it from happening again. As an additional precaution, a password reset notification will be sent to all our potentially affected customers, representing less than the 1% of our customers.
BIDefender gets the security of its customers very seriously and any issue that might involve the security of our customers or the security of our servers is treated with the utmost seriousness and hardship.
Please be aware that violations in security service companies are always inconvenient, even if they are relatively small.
They prove once again that no one can talk about Internet security.
