Days after reporting an incident affecting a number of its customers, enterprise data giant Alation today confirmed a cyberattack. Alation has not yet specified the nature of the cyberattack, mentioned the root cause of the incident, or said how many customers are affected.
When reached by TechCrunch about the incident, the company said it was investigating.
“Alation recently identified an isolated incident involving unauthorized activity in one of its systems,” the company said in a statement provided to TechCrunch by an external representative, Stephen Russell. “We are conducting a thorough investigation of what occurred and we will provide additional information as appropriate.”
Alation did not specify the nature of the cyberattack, mention the root cause of the incident, or say how many customers are affected. The company did not say if it had alerted its customers to the incident or what defensive actions, if any, they should take following the intrusion.
On Tuesday, Alation reported an unspecified incident that resulted in “degraded availability” for some of its customers. The company said it had resolved the incident within an hour.
Much of the company’s systems are hosted on Amazon Web Services. It’s not immediately clear if any data was stolen or exfiltrated during the incident.
Commenting on this news is Dan Moore, Sr. Director, CIAM Strategy & Identity Standards at FusionAuth:
“A data catalog breach gives attackers a guided tour of how your organization “thinks” and where the valuables are hidden. After a breach like this, the bad guys now know how you classify what’s sensitive, who can access it, and how it all connects. This stolen knowledge remains valuable for years because of data gravity. It’s difficult to remediate, because you can’t simply change passwords or rotate tokens.”
It sucks for Alation because it sounds like we’ll never find out who the threat actors were and how they were kicked out of the network. Assuming that they were kicked out of the network.
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AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack
Days after reporting an incident affecting a number of its customers, enterprise data giant Alation today confirmed a cyberattack. Alation has not yet specified the nature of the cyberattack, mentioned the root cause of the incident, or said how many customers are affected.
When reached by TechCrunch about the incident, the company said it was investigating.
“Alation recently identified an isolated incident involving unauthorized activity in one of its systems,” the company said in a statement provided to TechCrunch by an external representative, Stephen Russell. “We are conducting a thorough investigation of what occurred and we will provide additional information as appropriate.”
Alation did not specify the nature of the cyberattack, mention the root cause of the incident, or say how many customers are affected. The company did not say if it had alerted its customers to the incident or what defensive actions, if any, they should take following the intrusion.
On Tuesday, Alation reported an unspecified incident that resulted in “degraded availability” for some of its customers. The company said it had resolved the incident within an hour.
Much of the company’s systems are hosted on Amazon Web Services. It’s not immediately clear if any data was stolen or exfiltrated during the incident.
Commenting on this news is Dan Moore, Sr. Director, CIAM Strategy & Identity Standards at FusionAuth:
“A data catalog breach gives attackers a guided tour of how your organization “thinks” and where the valuables are hidden. After a breach like this, the bad guys now know how you classify what’s sensitive, who can access it, and how it all connects. This stolen knowledge remains valuable for years because of data gravity. It’s difficult to remediate, because you can’t simply change passwords or rotate tokens.”
It sucks for Alation because it sounds like we’ll never find out who the threat actors were and how they were kicked out of the network. Assuming that they were kicked out of the network.
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