https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/27/comodo-password-access-data/
By Zack Whittaker
Tech Crunch
July 27, 2019
A hacker gained access to internal files and documents owned by security
company and SSL certificate issuer Comodo by using an email address and
password mistakenly exposed on the internet.
The credentials were found in a public GitHub repository owned by a Comodo
software developer. With the email address and password in hand, the
hacker was able to log into the company’s Microsoft-hosted cloud services.
The account was not protected with two-factor authentication.
Jelle Ursem, a Netherlands-based security researcher who found the
credentials, contacted Comodo vice president Rajaswi Das by WhatsApp to
secure the account. The password was revoked the following day.
Ursem told TechCrunch that the account allowed him to access internal
Comodo files and documents, including sales documents and spreadsheets in
the company’s OneDrive — and the company’s organization graph on
SharePoint, allowing him to see the team’s biographies, contact
information including phone numbers and email addresses, photos, customer
documents, calendar, and more.
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