Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

A Canadian and an American living in Turkey 'walk into' cloud storage environments… Two men allegedly compromised what's believed to be multiple organizations' Snowflake-hosted cloud environments, stole sensitive data within, and extorted at least $2.5 million from at least three victims.…

A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka's alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations.

Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of having stolen the data of hundreds of millions after targeting over 165 organizations, all of them customers of cloud storage company Snowflake. [...]

Hacking Suspect Tied to Theft of Data From AT&T, TicketMaster, Santander and OthersCanadian authorities arrested a suspected extortionist tied to the hacking theft of terabytes of data from clients of cloud-based data warehousing platform Snowflake. Charges against the suspect, Alexander Moucka, aka Connor Moucka, have yet to be publicly detailed.

Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year