Hackers have been targeting cloud storage platform Snowflake to steal data from its consumers.
Hackers have been targeting the cloud storage platform Snowflake to hack data from its hundreds of consumers which include Ticketmaster.
Live Nation Confirms Ticketmaster Was Hacked
Live Nation a mega player in entertainment field has confirmed that its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster experienced a security breach.
The confirmation came in filing with government regulators late on Friday.
Live Nation add that breach involved unauthorized activity within third party cloud database containing company data.
Live Nation did not disclose the name of third party cloud database
Live Nation and Ticketmaster infrastructure is hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Live Nation did not specify whose personal data was compromised it is believed to relate to consumers. The reason for company delay in publicly disclosing the breach which took over a week remains unclear.
Ticketmaster spokesperson told media that company breach data was hosted on Snowflake.
The spokesperson did not explain how data was extracted from Snowflake systems.
“As of the date of this filing the incident has not had and we do not believe it is likely to have material impact on overall business operations or on our financial condition or results of operations.
“We continue to evaluate the risks and our remediation efforts are ongoing.
In its filing the company add the breach occurred on May 20 and May 27 when a cybercriminal offered what it alleged to company user data fro sale via dark web.
Snowflake on Cybersecurity Breach
Snowflake a Boston based company famous for providing cloud based data storage and analytics services to various mega brands confirmed that it is investigation cyber threat activity targeting some of its customer accounts.
This statement follows a claim by cybersecurity vendor Hudson Rock Snowflake experienced a mega breach affecting up to 400 companies.
Hudson Rock discovered the incident after communicating with hacker who allegedly accessed the data of Santander Bank and Ticketmaster.
Cybersecurity vendor the hacker noted that all these breaches originated form compromise of single vendor Snowflake.
Hudson Rock revealed that hacker tried to extort $20 million from Snowflake but get no response from Montana based company.
According to cybersecurity vendor the hacker noted all breaches originated from compromise of single vendor Snowflake.
The hacker claimed that they breached Snowflake by acquiring login credentials from an employees Service Now account which seemed to be integrated into Snowflake internal IT infrastructure.
This access permitted them to bypass security measures from Snowflake single sing on provider Okta.
The hacker claimed to have generated session tokens enabling them to extract mega amount of data from company.