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How Do Some Companies Get Compromised Again and Again?
Source: Security Intelligence
https://securityintelligence.com/articles/how-do-some-companies-get-compromised-again-and-again/
[h/t Sabrina] Hack me once, shame on thee. Hack me twice, shame on me.
The popular email marketing company, MailChimp, suffered a data breach last year after cyberattackers exploited an internal company tool to gain access to customer accounts. The criminals were able to look at around 300 accounts and exfiltrate data on 102 customers. They also accessed some customers’ AIP keys, which would have enabled them to send email campaigns posing as those customers.
This data breach attack wasn’t especially noteworthy — until less than six months later, it happened again. As before, an intruder accessed internal tools to compromise data on 133 MailChimp accounts. The breach was made possible by a social engineering attack on employees and contractors to gain access to employee passwords.
What Goes Wrong in Attack Recovery that Invites New Attacks?
Here’s an under-appreciated fact about what happens after a cyberattack: Malicious actors learn what’s possible.
In the MailChimp example, cyberattackers learned that 1) internal tools were vulnerable, and 2) they could be used to steal customer data.
