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Canadian authorities arrested a suspect linked to multiple hacks following a breach of cloud data platform Snowflake earlier this year. “Canadian authorities have arrested a man suspected of being behind a string of hacks involving as many as 165 customers of Snowflake Inc., Charges remain undisclosed.
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According to other reports, most of that data is unstructured. As organizations deal with such high volumes of dark and unstructureddata, most of this data contains sensitive information , making it a primary target for databreach attacks.
“The impacted server analysed by McGrathNicol Advisory consisted of an extremely large volume of semi-structured and unstructureddata stored across a variety of data sets.” Pierluigi Paganini Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, MediSecure)
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