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This article is claiming that the Ticketmaster breach from a few days ago was actually a much broader hack affecting 400+ companies, all through a Snowflake employee's stolen credentials. This seems like a pretty big story that's only being reported on hudsonrock.com now.

I haven't heard of Hudson Rock before, does anyone know if they are a reputable source?

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> I haven't heard of Hudson Rock before, does anyone know if they are a reputable source?

I first learned of Hudson Rock after their "CEO" started spamming every security-related subreddit with low-effort blogspam over a period of months alleging numerous breaches. They've had several accounts banned, both by Reddit moderators and administrators.

Personally, I would no consider them a reputable or reliable source.

BBC News report of a substantial hack of Santander bank; linked to Snowflake. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ppv06e3n8o

BBC just linked back to Hudson Rock's allegation FWIW, they don't have any independent confirmation

Great, so these companies do not give a flying fuck about their customer data in making sure the data stored at cloud storage companies are end to end encrypted.

To think these random cloud storage companies can access your bank information is utterly shocking.

> To think these random cloud storage companies can access your bank information is utterly shocking.

Honestly this sort of thing shouldn't be shocking at all.

Not surprised at all. Doesn't even depend on cloud vendors - I'm thinking back to the 2023 MOVEit vulnerability which resulted in the release of a ton of customer info from banks' own internal infrastructure.

It’s been a while since I’ve been a Snowflake customer, but I do recall that Snowflake has a mode where the customer owns their own encryption key for their data. Snowflake employees (even admins with the highest access) have no access to the customer’s data unless the customer grants explicit access. It’d take a pretty serious breach on their compute notes to exfiltrate data.

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-encryption...

Can a tool like Snowflake work if it doesn’t have access to the unencrypted data?

No. E2E encryption doesn't really apply here.

lol everyone in this thread is wrong about everything basically.

Let them be enraged. Great time to buy more SNOW :D

Snowflake employees need time to sell off all their shares. This news will hurt the SNOW stock price big.

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