The Target: Animker, an all-in-one video marketing online platform company.
The Take: Exposure of 700,000 records of Personally Identifiable Information including: full names, device types, postal codes, IP addresses, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, profile details, and physical addresses.
The Vector: A misconfigured database was left open and unsecured, and notably, on its default settings, meaning anyone with an internet connection could have viewed and downloaded the data using the server maker’s basic setup guide.
This shows how important authentication controls are, and even more critically, that they be purposefully and smartly deployed with security in mind. Multi-factor authentication and password length and complexity rules on server access are effective strategies to mitigate these kinds of breaches to protect a firm’s data.