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Apple, Google, Amazon, Citibank Third-Party Breach (October 2020)

📅 2020-10-01 🏢 NITRO
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Incident Details

Nitro PDF Suffered A Data Breach Impacting Google, Apple, Amazon, And More. Popular PDF service provider Nitro PDF has recently suffered a massive data breach. While, they apparently strive to downplay the incident, it turns out that the breach also affected tech giants including Apple, Google, Amazon,. Reportedly, Nitro Software, the entity behind Nitro PDF has disclosed a data breach. As revealed via a statement to the Australia Stock Exchange, Nitro noticed some unauthorized access to an isolated database. However, according to the firm, the affected database didn’t include any information that could affect its clients. As mentioned in their statement,. Third-party company: NITRO.

Technical Details

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

Timeline

  1. 2020-10-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2020-10-28 Publicly disclosed