Digital Ocean springs a leak: Miscreant exploits hole to peep on unlucky customers' billing details for two weeks

Digital Ocean springs a leak: Miscreant exploits hole to peep on unlucky customers' billing details for two weeks

Digital Ocean on Wednesday said someone was able to snoop on some of its cloud subscribers' billing information via a now-patched vulnerability.


In an email to affected customers seen by The Register – and full disclosure, your Register vulture is a customer – the rent-a-server biz said that two days ago it confirmed a miscreant had gained unauthorized access to some people's account records. The sneak was able to glimpse the data between April 9 and 22 via an undisclosed security hole that Digital Ocean said it has now closed up.

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The intruder was able to see "a small percentage" of users' names, billing addresses, payment card expiry date ..

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