After I posted this story earlier today, I started looking to see if I could find additional details on the pwnage of Global Affairs. And what I did find blew my mind. The National Post has a story that I’ll give you the TL:DR on because you should really go read it for yourself to see how mind blowing this is.
This hack started on December 20th of last year when Global Affair’s VPN was pwned by threat actors. But it wasn’t discovered until January 24th. That’s just over a month. And while that’s nowhere as bad as 23andMe who were pwned for months before they found out, it’s still bad because who knows exactly what these threat actors did in that time. But it is known that the threat actors accessed an unknown number of employees’ emails and data stored on personal and shared servers connected to the VPN.
Now while the Privacy Commissioner has been notified, there needs to be an investigation as to what in the blue blazes is going on at Global Affairs. I say that because the National Post points out that this is the second time that they’ve been pwned in the last two years. Which of course is bad, and indicates that they perhaps aren’t doing everything possible to keep the bad guys out.
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The Hack Of Global Affairs Canada Is Actually Pretty Bad
After I posted this story earlier today, I started looking to see if I could find additional details on the pwnage of Global Affairs. And what I did find blew my mind. The National Post has a story that I’ll give you the TL:DR on because you should really go read it for yourself to see how mind blowing this is.
This hack started on December 20th of last year when Global Affair’s VPN was pwned by threat actors. But it wasn’t discovered until January 24th. That’s just over a month. And while that’s nowhere as bad as 23andMe who were pwned for months before they found out, it’s still bad because who knows exactly what these threat actors did in that time. But it is known that the threat actors accessed an unknown number of employees’ emails and data stored on personal and shared servers connected to the VPN.
Now while the Privacy Commissioner has been notified, there needs to be an investigation as to what in the blue blazes is going on at Global Affairs. I say that because the National Post points out that this is the second time that they’ve been pwned in the last two years. Which of course is bad, and indicates that they perhaps aren’t doing everything possible to keep the bad guys out.
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