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Data breach at Social Blade confirmed. Hacker offers to sell database on underground website
Social media analytics service Social Blade has confirmed that it is investigating a security breach after a hacker offered its user database for sale on an underground criminal website.
In a notification sent to Social Blade users, the firm said that it had confirmed that its database was being offered for sale on a hacking forum after being notified of a potential breach on December 14th.
According to Bleeping Computer, Social Blade’s data was first put on sale on the underground forum on December 12, 2022.
The hacker, meanwhile, claims to have stolen the database of 5.6 million records in September.
Social Blade, which monitors the social media accounts of tens of millions of users, issued a reassurance that no credit card information had been leaked, but did say that the leaked data included email addresses, IP addresses, password hashes, client IDs and tokens for business API users, auth tokens for connected accounts, and “many other pieces of non-personal and internal data.”
In addition, the firm warned that “a very small subset of the data (about a tenth of a percent)”” also included the addresses of users.
Social Blade went on to say that although password hashes had been leaked, it did not believe they were at risk as the strong bcrypt encryption algorithm had been used. Nonetheless, it would be sensible for affected Social Blade users to change their passwords, ensuring that new passwords are hard-to-crack or guess, and are unique.
Business API tokens have meanwhile been reset to prevent exploitation by unauthorised third parties.
Social Blade believes that the individual who stole its data accessed it by exploiting a website vulnerability. It says it has closed the security hole and is conducting additional reviews of its systems to ensure that security is further hardened.
Anyone who has used Social Blade would be wise to not only change their password but also to be on the lookout for scams and phishing attacks which attempt to use the breached information to trick the unwary into handing over further details.
New OpenVPX blade server provides advanced security and
ANDOVER, Mass., June 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mercury Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a leader in trusted, secure mission-critical technologies for aerospace and defense, today announced the EnsembleSeries™ HDS6705 blade server, the embedded computing industry’s most powerful, general-purpose processing 6U OpenVPX™ blade server with built-in security for the most demanding aerospace and defense applications. For applications needing the same built-in security protections in a more balanced performance/watt configuration, the EnsembleSeries LDS6708 single board computer is also available.
“We’re putting an end to the industry assumption that embedded computing solutions can’t provide both advanced security and high performance without compromising one or the other,” said Joe Plunkett, vice president and general manager, Mercury Embedded. “Not only can you get security and data center-caliber processing capability from a single 6U OpenVPX module, but you can also deploy it in the harshest, most space-constrained environments at the tactical edge. Our Gen 4 BuiltSECURE™ pre-integrated security technology, designed and developed in trusted and accredited facilities, provides our customers the assurance that critical mission data remains safeguarded against adversarial threats. It’s another example of how Mercury provides secure capabilities, delivered uncompromised.”
HDS6705 blade servers are powered by artificial intelligence (AI)-enabling Second Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and feature advanced ruggedization and high-speed switch fabric interconnect technologies that deliver secure multifunction processing capability. The blade servers are optimized for size, weight, power and cooling to enable the data center-class processors to operate at maximum performance while delivering the highest meantime between failure. An OpenVPX™ architecture makes the blades ideal building blocks for developing software-agnostic embedded AI-capable processing systems, and a SOSA-aligned design approach enables rapid modernization — both of which reduce program cost and offer scalability and interoperability.
Designed, manufactured, coded,…
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