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Sony Third-Party Breach (October 2023)

πŸ“… 2023-10-01 🏒 Ipswitch, Inc.
Primary Source β†—

Incident 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
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2023-10-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2023-10-04 Publicly disclosed