Cloud [SC] Supply Chain

Joomla Third-Party Breach (June 2020)

2020-06-01 [vendor] Open Source Matters
Primary Source ↗

Incident Details

Joomla team discloses data breach. Joomla says a team member left an unencrypted backup of the JRD portal on a private AWS S3 bucket. The team behind the Joomla open source content management system (CMS) announced a security breach last week. The incident took place after a member of the Joomla Resources Directory (JRD) team left a full backup of the JRD site ( resources.joomla.org ) on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket owned by their own company. Third-party company: Open Source Matters.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
Open Source Matters
Supply Chain Attack
✅ Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2020-06-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2020-06-01 Publicly disclosed