Tuesday, April 28, 2015

cloud-based email delivery service hacked - After all they were in email business (not security)




How about this.........

SendGrid, which sells a cloud-based email delivery service, has admitted that the extent of a hack disclosed three weeks ago was much more serious than originally reported.

Campbell said the systems stored SendGrid customer and employee usernames, email addresses, and salted and hashed passwords. Systems holding customer email lists, addresses and contact information were also accessed, Campbell said.

One day after the SendGrid breach, the New York Times reported that attackers used the credentials to breach Bitcoin exchange Coinbase, which confirmed to the Times that hackers had compromised its SendGrid account. Other Bitcoin exchanges were also previously targeted through similar email services, the Times report said.


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