The City of Woodstock spent more than half-a-million dollars on a cybersecurity company's services, after an attack in the fall.
A Kitchener, Ont., man accused of taking part in a massive hacking scheme affecting cloud storage provider Snowflake has been arrested and may be extradited to the United States.A data breach affecting Snowflake, a U.S.-based cloud storage provider, was reported to authorities several months ago. A Kitchener, Ont., man and a man residing in Turkey have been arrested in the case. A Kitchener, Ont.
Snowflake, which reported the data breach to U.S. authorities several months ago, is an American-based data storage company, with customers including telecommunications giant AT&T, Live Nation's Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment. CBC reached out to the jail where Moucka is currently being held but was denied communication. He is not yet represented by a lawyer.On May 30, Snowflake posted a notice to its website acknowledging it was aware of a possible compromise of the company's online data.
Carmichael said the apparent perpetrator, or UNC5537 as he was referred to throughout the investigation, didn't compromise Snowflake but gained personal information to infiltrate the company. "We've started really blending work and personal use on systems, and that's enabled threat actors to essentially get access to corporate resources by way of less protected infrastructure," he said.Though not initially involved in the Snowflake investigation, Allison Nixon, chief researcher with Unit 221B, said threats against researchers within her organization is what piqued the security company's interest.
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