In brief Email security biz Mimecast not only fell victim to the SolarWinds hackers, leading to its own customers being attacked, it is also trimming its workforce amid healthy profits.
Last month Mimecast revealed that one of its cryptographic certificates was purloined by the same team that smuggled a hidden backdoor into SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software.
Mimecast offers security services that plug into Microsoft 365 accounts, and someone with that certificate could therefore tap into Mimecast-Microsoft customer connections and steal information. What kind of info? Encrypted login details for Microsoft services, for instance. Here's how Mimecast put it:
It added:
A new certificate has been issued. Connections by one in ten of Mimecast's 36,000 customers were at ..
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