Acronis has been hit by a big information breach, nonetheless the corporate has performed down its seriousness by saying just some buyer credentials had been affected, and that its programs hopefully remained unaffected.

Earlier this week, a menace actor going by the title “kernelware” posted a thread on the notorious Breached Boards wherein they claimed to have breached Acronis, and as proof, leaked greater than 12GB of information.

The leak comprises “varied certificates recordsdata, varied command logs, system configurations, system info logs, archives of their filesystem, python scripts for his or her maria.db database, backup configuration stuff, a great deal of screenshots of their backup operations.”

Attacking out of boredom

The menace actor mentioned the one motive for the breach was boredom, and the truth that the agency’s endpoints (opens in new tab) had “dogsh*t safety”. “So i simply determined to humiliate them. Easy as that,” the thread reads. Whereas some customers requested for a extra detailed breakdown on how the attacked pulled it off, kernelware determined to not share any particulars. 

Nonetheless, Acronis reached out to each the media and social media, to say none of its merchandise had been affected. In a response to a tweet, the corporate mentioned “particular credentials” utilized by a single buyer to add diagnostic information to an Acronis server had been compromised. 

“No Acronis merchandise have been affected. Our customer support group is at present working with this buyer.”

Regardless of this most probably not being a breach of Acronis, the actual fact nonetheless stays that the consumer didn’t trouble to make use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to safe their account. 

MFA is extensively thought-about as an trade normal for cybersecurity, and one of the suggested strategies. With MFA, customers additionally have to obtain a one-time passcode with the intention to log in. That passcode might be obtained both by way of SMS, by a cellular app corresponding to Google Authenticator, or by way of a {hardware} token. 

Final yr, Passkeys have additionally emerged as a viable various to passwords. 

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By way of: The Register (opens in new tab)