Supply chain
β Supply Chain
Sony Third-Party Breach (October 2023)
Primary Source βIncident Details
Sony confirms data breach impacting thousands in the U.S.. Sony Interactive Entertainment (Sony) has notified current and former employees and their family members about a cybersecurity breach that exposed personal information. The company sent the data breach notification to about 6,800 individuals, confirming that the intrusion occurred after an unauthorized party exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform. The zero-day is CVE-2023-34362 , a critical-severity SQL injection flaw that leads to remote code execution, leveraged by the Clop ransomware in large-scale attacks that compromised numerous organizations across the world. Third-party company: Ipswitch, Inc..
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
- Vendor / Product
- Ipswitch, Inc.
- Supply Chain Attack
- β Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise
Timeline
- 2023-10-01 Breach occurred
- 2023-10-04 Publicly disclosed