It has been reported that the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (SFERS) said it suffered a data breach after an unauthorised person gained access to a database hosted in a test environment. In a data breach notification filed yesterday, SFERS stated that one of their vendors had set up a test environment that included a database containing the information for approximately 74,000 SFERS members. While SFERS states that no Social Security Numbers or bank account information was contained in the breach, there was enough personal information exposed that could be used by threat actors in attacks. The leaked information for all members includes a member’s name, address, date of birth, and beneficiary information.
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@Michael Borohovski, Director of Software Engineering, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The breach itself is also interesting from a technical perspective...."
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@Michael Borohovski, Director of Software Engineering, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The breach itself is also interesting from a technical perspective...."
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@Jayant Shukla, CTO and Co-Founder, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Vulnerabilities, misconfigured servers, and misused credentials are among the top reasons systems get breached...."
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@Jayant Shukla, CTO and Co-Founder, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Vulnerabilities, misconfigured servers, and misused credentials are among the top reasons systems get breached...."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Test environments are usually not secured or monitored to the same level as production environments...."
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@Javvad Malik, Security Awareness Advocate, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Test environments are usually not secured or monitored to the same level as production environments...."
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@Brian Higgins, Security Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"This incident highlights the vital importance of data ownership and supply chain security...."
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@Brian Higgins, Security Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"This incident highlights the vital importance of data ownership and supply chain security...."
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