{"id":322,"date":"2023-03-13T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:30:50","slug":"gbs-of-acronis-data-including-liquid-web-allegedly-breached-by-breachforumskernelware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/gbs-of-acronis-data-including-liquid-web-allegedly-breached-by-breachforumskernelware\/","title":{"rendered":"GBs of Acronis data, including Liquid Web, allegedly breached by BreachForums\\Kernelware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(image sources: Acronis, 2012 &amp; Liquid Web, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One-sentence summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acronis customer Liquid Web was breached by Kernelware, allegedly producing GBs of data (involving both companies) posted for sale on BreachForums. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who was involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acronis, a single Acronis customer&#8211; Liquid Web, and Kernelware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What was the timeline?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 9, 2023: Kernelware posts the data for sale on BreachForums<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 10, 2023: Liquid Web acknowledges the breach to HackRead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What occurred?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kernelware posted a data dump for sale on BreachForums allegedly containing GBs of sensitive data for Acronis (Waqas, 2023). Acronis acknowledged the breach, however, qualifying that it was confined to a single customer (Liquid Web) and only involved a diagnostic uplink (Kaur, 2023, paras. 6-7). Liquid Web data was found within the breach, invoking an acknowledgment from Liquid Web (Waqas, 2023, paras. 4-6). Leaked data allegedly included: &#8220;certificate files, command logs, system configurations, system information logs, archives of their filesystem, and python scripts for their maria.db database, backup configuration stuff, and loads of screenshots of their backup operations&#8221; (Waqas, 2023, para. 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Estimated costs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Potential incident response costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Involved laws: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Root cause: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Single customer password (Kaur, 2023, para. 6). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lessons learned: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strong password policies, MFA, mandatory 2FA, FIDO authentication. Potentially conditional access (e.g., geographical, IP, or CTI-based) policies, risk-based authentication, attribute-based access control (ABAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acronis. (2012, September 5). <em>Logo di Acronis<\/em>. Wikimedia Commons. https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Acronis.svg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaur, D. (2023, March 10). <em>Acronis customer compromised by \u2018bored\u2019 hacker. Here\u2019s what we know<\/em>. Techwire Asia. Retrieved March 13, 2023, from https:\/\/techwireasia.com\/2023\/03\/a-bored-hacker-breached-swiss-cybersecurity-firm-acronis-heres-what-we-know-so-far\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liquid Web. (2020, January). <em>twitter-thumb.jpg<\/em>. Cloudinary. https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/lwgatsby\/f_auto\/www\/uploads\/2020\/01\/twitter-thumb.jpg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waqas. (2023, March 10). <em>Cybersecurity Firm Acronis Data Breach: Hackers Leak 21GB of Data<\/em>. HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site. 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