Yesterday, the security team at Cybernews announced what will likely prove to be the largest data breach of all time. In joint effort with security researcher Bob Dyachenko, the Cybernews team found an open instance on the web containing billions of exposed records. This breach, amounting to an incredible 12 terabytes of information and 26 billion records, is being dubbed as the Mother of All Breaches—MOAB for short.
From Twitter and LinkedIn to Adobe and Wattpad and many more, leaked data from these major online brand names were found included in the MOAB instance. Tencent, the Chinese messaging app, was the one with the largest number of exposed records—1.4 billion alone. Additionally, records from global governmental organizations were also found.
Greg Day, SVP and global field CISO at Cybereason, commented that: “As we head towards 6 years of GDPR, it’s clear that numerous businesses face challenges in promptly detecting increasingly intricate cyber-attacks, with the average response time often extending to hundreds of days.”
As a result, the combined records of all these consumers are now exposed to anyone on the web. And, while a lot of this information likely originated from previous breaches, there is undoubtedly some as-of-yet unseen data in the mix too.
The person—or persons—behind the MOAB is one of the questions that remains. It could be a threat actor or an access broker. In short, it is likely someone with an interest in having easy access to so many billions of records.
Even though the MOAB might contain duplicated data in some cases, it hardly diminishes the impact. The consequences facing consumers following this breach cannot be under ..
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