Supply chain ⛓ Supply Chain

500 – 1,000 e-commerce stores Third-Party Breach (May 2025)

📅 2025-05-01 🏢 Tigren, Meetanshi and MGS
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Incident Details

Magento supply chain attack compromises hundreds of e-stores. A supply chain attack involving 21 backdoored Magento extensions has compromised between 500 and 1,000 e-commerce stores, including one belonging to a $40 billion multinational. Sansec researchers who discovered the attack report that some extensions were backdoored as far back as 2019, but the malicious code was only activated in April 2025. “Multiple vendors were hacked in a coordinated supply chain attack, Sansec found 21 applications with the same backdoor,” explains Sansec. Third-party company: Tigren, Meetanshi and MGS.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Compromise of third-party service provider / vendor relationship
Vendor / Product
Tigren, Meetanshi and MGS
Supply Chain Attack
✅ Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2025-05-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2025-05-02 Publicly disclosed