Another Fucking Data Breach. You’re Welcome.

Right, listen up. Workiva, a big SaaS company that handles financial reporting – because apparently *everything* needs to be in the cloud now – just admitted they got their data nicked. And how did this happen? Through Salesforce. Salesforce. Like, the biggest target on the internet for every script kiddie and nation-state actor with a pulse.

Somehow, attackers managed to compromise Workiva’s Salesforce instance (shocking, I know) between February 1st and March 20th, 2024. They snagged customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, and…wait for it…some goddamn *document metadata*. Metadata! Like the titles of reports are some kind of state secret. Honestly.

They’re saying no sensitive financial data was accessed, which is what they always say. But still, customer info is out there. They’ve notified customers (eventually) and are “working with cybersecurity experts” – meaning they’re probably paying a fortune to clean up the mess *they* should have prevented in the first place.

They’re blaming it on a “limited number of unauthorized users” gaining access. Limited? Sure, Jan. It always is, isn’t it?

Seriously, if you’re trusting your critical data to any cloud provider, especially one that relies heavily on Salesforce, you deserve whatever happens to you.

Source: BleepingComputer

And Another Thing…

Reminds me of this one time, back in ’98, a company insisted on using a web interface for their entire accounting system. I told them it was a disaster waiting to happen. They laughed. Six months later? Total compromise. Had to rebuild the whole damn thing from backups. People never learn. Never.

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