Nitro software data breach: Hackers claim selling customer data

Nitro software data breach: Hackers claim selling customer data
 

Nitro Software Inc’s data breach may affect industry bigwigs like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.


A well-known document productivity company in Australia, Nitro Software Inc., became the target of a data breach on October 21st. Apparently, the customer data of the company is up for sale on the dark web.


Nitro Software’s services are used by around 1.8 million licensed users and more than 10 thousand business customers. It is an application that creates, edits, and sign digital and PDF documents. It also offers cloud services through which customers can share documents with other organizations or coworkers.


What’s noteworthy is that several industry giants are Nitro Software customers, including several Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Citibank Chase, and Google.


According to the advisory issued by Nitro Software to the Australian Stock Exchange, this was a “low impact security incident,” and the unauthorized third party could obtain “limited access to a Nitro database.” Furthermore, the company claims that customer data was not impacted by the incident.

However, as per the analysis of cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble, the stolen data includes one terabyte worth of its customers’ created documents apart from the company’s user databases and other documents.


Moreover, Cyble discovered a threat actor selling the data in the private auction on the dark web claiming to have stolen it from ..

Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.