The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine claims the data leak has exposed millions of top websites to cyber attacks.
A few weeks ago, we saw a disruption in Cloudflare’s services forcing several top websites to go offline worldwide. At the time though, the company claimed that they had not been attacked in any way and it was due to a bad software deployment issue.
However, just yesterday, the National Cyber Security Coordination Center of Ukraine has alleged that a data leak has occurred from Cloudflare resulting in the real IP addresses of almost 3 million sites being exposed on the dark web.
If true, this could be a major blow to the service provider since it markets itself as protecting the real IP addresses of its clients in order to protect them from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Moreover, it also raises the question of whether the outage earlier was because of the alleged attack?
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Currently, the records published by the agency include 45 of its own records featuring the “gov.ua” top-level domain (TLD) and 6500 records featuring the “.ua” TLD indicating that a good number of Ukrainian sites were exposed including those of critical infrastructure facilities.
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