Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers for not using multi-factor authentication to secure their Snowflake accounts, a security feature that the cloud data giant did not enforce or require its customers to use.

Cybersecurity incident response firm Mandiant, which Snowflake called in to help with notifying customers, later said about 165 Snowflake customers had a “significant volume of data” stolen from their customer accounts.

Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers

Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers

Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5554201&forum_id=2...id#47834408)

snowflake’s problem is that they’re the nexus for public opinion purposes - joe the plumber and congresstard #271 don’t give a shit about who should've locked the deadbolt, they just know this apartment building got hit by thieves 150 times

this is a situation where they needed to save incompetents from themselves

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5554201&forum_id=2...id#47834443)

ftc et al may well turn snowflake’s asshold inside out as part of this but if a third party gets access to your (customers’) data using your credentials because the security configuration you chose for your subcontractor’s environment lacked boomer-securing-his-facebook-account-level protection, you’re probably gonna have a bad time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5554201&forum_id=2...id#47834641)

Users do not need to separately sign up with Duo or perform any tasks, other than installing the Duo Mobile application, which is supported on multiple smart phone platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, etc.). See the Duo User Guide for more information about supported platforms/devices and how Duo multi-factor authentication works.

MFA is enabled on a per-user basis; however, at this time, users are not automatically enrolled in MFA. To use MFA, users must enroll themselves.

Attention

At a minimum, Snowflake strongly recommends that all users with the ACCOUNTADMIN role be required to use MFA.

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5554201&forum_id=2...id#47834891)

but plausible to me that a bunch of IT monkeys either got spearphished or else reused credentials on darknet lists and then it bit them via either credential stuffing or bad actors checking job roles

and it’s also way funnier to come at this from the angle of “humble low tech mom and pop shop AT&T TRUSTED those villains at snowflake when they said their security was top notch”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5554201&forum_id=2...id#47834930)

“and now you’ve breached me, even why?”

“you know cybersecurity is subject to regulatory scrutiny and my ceo is gonna have to testify"

"oh, shut up, silly megacap," said that shitcloud with a grin

"now you knew darn well i was shitcloud before you brought me in"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5554201&forum_id=2...id#47835005)