The United States (USA), an information technology company based in Utah, was able to realize that it was only two years later that it was cyber-attacked. After one of the servers warned of insufficient disk space, the company became aware of the situation.
This interesting hack case is based in Utah, which provides server services and custom applications for top-level marketing firms InfoTrax Systems’. In 2016, the company reported that a hacker stole personal information from nearly a million users. security breach He explained that he lived. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an investigation into InfoTrax, following clues that the company did not secure its servers.
According to the FTC report computer hackeris a critical tool for installing malicious code that allows remote control of the company's website and adjacent server infrastructure. vulnerable He took advantage of.
According to the FTC, the hacker provided access to InfoTrax servers for almost two years between May 2014 and March 2016. InfoTrax could not detect these violations. The FTC says the company does not have the appropriate security systems to detect unauthorized access and file changes; but one of the servers on March 7, 2016 low disk space warning turned out to be.
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Extending the investigation, the FTC is able to fill the disk's free space while collecting data from the hacker's InfoTrax servers. large data archive file created. The data file contained the personal information of the 11.8 million users it had collected over two years. The stolen information includes many sensitive data such as Social Security numbers, credit card and bank account information, and usernames and passwords.
The FTC, Utah-based company, which decided that InfoTrax helps customer record information in clear text security breach He said he had reached an agreement to eliminate the weaknesses that had led to.