Attackers had access to data of 145 million users from Flipboard news aggregator

News aggregator Flipboard became a victim of data leakage, this information confirmed in the company.

Unauthorized attackers managed to get access to several databases where was stored information about Flipboard users accounts.

Cybercriminals, their personalities are not established yet, had access to company’s systmes between June 2, 2018 and March 23, 2019. Second time attackers invaded systems on April 21-22, 2019. On April 23, 2019, company’s employees paid attention to suspicious activity in infrastructure.

“Not so long time ago we discovered unauthorized access to our databases, where stored information about our users’ accounts. Besides, there were stores credentials” – says official Flipboard claim concerning cyberincident.

Company initiated an investigation and involved side company that specializes on cybersecurity.

“According to the results of investigation, became evident that unauthorized attackers got access and downloaded several copies of Flipboard databases that contained users’ data” – reported in Flipboard.

It is worth reminding that Flipboard database accounts 145 million users.

In company’s declaration is states that affected by the attacks databases contained credentials of some of their users, including full names, names on Flipboard, cryptographically protected password and email.

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However, Flipboard says that always cryptographically protected passwords, using method that specialists in security call “salted hashing”, so users can not to change passwords.

Also in company claim that this incident did not affect social insurance numbers and other ID, released by authorities, information on bank accounts, credit cards numbers or other financial information.

Source: https://about.flipboard.com