Supply chain
⛓ Supply Chain
Xerox, CenturyLink, Nasdaq, General Electric, Forever21, and Dunkin Donuts Third-Party Breach (December 2019)
Primary Source ↗Incident Details
GE, Dunkin’, Forever 21 Caught Up in Broad Internal Document Leak. A PR and marketing provider exposed sensitive data for a raft of big-name companies. A marketing firm exposed hashed passwords and sensitive public relations documents of thousands of customers via a leaky Amazon S3 database – including big-name brands like GE, Dunkin’ Donuts, Forever 21 and more. Researchers with UpGuard in October discovered a misconfigured Amazon S3 storage bucket, originating from iPR Software, a hosted content management software platform for online newsrooms, websites and social-media communications. The database contained data belonging to clients using iPR Software’s platform, including the details of 477,000 clients’ media contacts, business entity account information, 35,000 hashed user passwords, assorted documents and administrative system credentials. Third-party company: iPR Software.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
- Vendor / Product
- iPR Software
- Supply Chain Attack
- ✅ Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise
Timeline
- 2019-12-01 Breach occurred
- 2019-12-09 Publicly disclosed