{"id":279181,"date":"2018-10-09T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T13:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=279181"},"modified":"2018-10-09T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T13:30:14","slug":"hetzner-client-data-exposed-after-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/279181-hetzner-client-data-exposed-after-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"Hetzner client data exposed after attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hetzner has sent a security alert to customers following an attack on the provider.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated that online platforms have been under severe\u00a0attack in 2018, and despite its &#8220;best efforts to stay one step ahead&#8221;, a security breach has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to inform you of a security incident involving your Hetzner account information. You do not need to take any action &#8211; we have the situation under control,&#8221; said Hetzner to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Hetzner said that on 5 October 2018 it uncovered suspicious activity on its database.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We acted swiftly, working around the clock, to patch the vulnerability from further coordinated attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Data was exposed as a result of the activity, and Hetzner said the following information may have been accessed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name and email address<\/li>\n<li>Phone number<\/li>\n<li>Address details<\/li>\n<li>Debit order bank account details<\/li>\n<li>Identity number<\/li>\n<li>VAT number<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hetzner stressed that data which was not exposed included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Credit card details<\/li>\n<li>Passwords and login credentials<\/li>\n<li>Website and email content<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company added that despite clients not needing to take any action, they must be on the lookout for\u00a0phishing scams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A comprehensive audit involving our security team and cyber security specialists is underway to ensure that our systems are secure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can reassure you that your data security remains our top priority and that we take swift and decisive action to address threats whenever they are identified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/279161-google-drops-out-of-pentagons-cloud-competition.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google drops out of Pentagon\u2019s cloud competition<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hetzner has sent a security alert to customers following an attack on the provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":143809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[15597,50043,35,1065],"class_list":["post-279181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-attack","tag-data-leak","tag-headline","tag-hetzner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}