Supply chain ⛓ Supply Chain

Xerox, CenturyLink, Nasdaq, General Electric, Forever21, and Dunkin Donuts Third-Party Breach (December 2019)

📅 2019-12-01 🏢 iPR Software
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

  1. 2019-12-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2019-12-09 Publicly disclosed