GitHub - ramimac/aws-customer-security-incidents: A repository of breaches of AWS customers

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Uber 2014, May GitHub Gist (data analysis script) with AWS credentials N/A 50,000 records, including names and driver’s licenses from S3 hosted database prunes Exclusive: In lawsuit over hacking, Uber probes IP address assigned to Lyft exec - sources , A blameless post-mortem of USA v. Joseph Sullivan Code Spaces 2014, June AWS Console Credentials (Phishing?) Attacker created additional accounts/access keys Wiped S3 buckets, EC2 instances, AMIs, EBS snapshots Hacker puts code spaces out of business BrowserStack 2014, November Shellshock on exposed, outdated prototype machine Access keys on server, used to create IAM user, create EC2, and mount backup Steal user data and email users BrowserStack analysis DNC Hack by the GRU 2016, June Unknown, test clusters breached EC2 Snapshots copied to attacker AWS accounts Tableau and Vertica Queries DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION DataDog 2016, July CI/CD AWS access key and SSH private key leaked Attacker attempted to pivot with customer credentials 3 EC2 instances and subset of S3 buckets 2016-07-08 Security Notice Uber 2016, October ~13 Hacked Uber credentials purchased for forum gave access to private GitHub Repo with AWS credentials N/A Names and driver’s license numbers of 600k drivers, PII of 57 million users in unencrypted manual backup Uber concealed cyberattack ..., A blameless post-mortem of USA v. Joseph Sullivan Lynda.com 2016, December Private GitHub Repo with AWS credentials N/A User data for 9.5m users, attempted extortion 2 Plead Guilty in 2016 Uber and Lynda.com Hacks OneLogin 2017, May AWS keys Created EC2 instances Accessed database tables (with encrypted data) May 31, 2017 Security Incident Politifact 2017, October "Misconfigured cloud computing server" N/A Coinhive cryptojacking Hackers have turned Politifact’s website into a trap for your PC Dataspline 2017, Unknown Monero miner in container base image dependency N/A Monero cryptojacking LinkedIn post from co-founder DXC Technologies 2017, November Private AWS key exposed via GitHub 244 EC2 instance started Cryptomining DXC spills AWS private keys on public GitHub Drizly 2018 AWS Credentials committed to public github repo N/A Cryptojacking FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION - Drizly Complaint LA Times 2018, February S3 global write access N/A Cryptojacking Coinhive cryptojacking added to homicide.latimes.com Tesla 2018, February Globally exposed Kubernetes console, Pod with AWS credentials N/A Cryptojacking Hack Brief: Hackers Enlisted Tesla's Public Cloud to Mine Cryptocurrency Chegg 2018, April Former contractor abuses broadly shared root credential Unknown 40 million users' data (from S3 bucket) FTC Complaint imToken 2018, June Email account compromise Reset AWS account password Minimal customer device data Disclosure of Security Incidents on imToken Reddit 2018, June Employee SMS intercepted for 2FA bypass N/A Internal systems accessed, user data including messages We had a security incident. 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Timehop 2018, July Compromised admin credentials without MFA N/A 21 million users' data including emails, phone numbers, social media tokens TechCrunch Voova 2019, March Stolen credentials by former employee N/A Deleted 23 servers Sacked IT guy annihilates 23 of his ex-employer’s AWS servers Capital One 2019, April "Misconfigured WAF" that allowed for a SSRF attack Over-privileged EC2 Role 100 million credit applications A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Cloud Misconfiguration Breach JW Player 2019, September Weave Scope (publicly exposed), RCE by design N/A Cryptojacking How A Cryptocurrency Miner Made Its Way onto Our Internal Kubernetes Clusters Malindo Air 2019, September Former employee insider threat N/A 35 million PII records Malindo Air: Data Breach Was Inside Job Imperva 2019, October “Internal compute instance” globally accessible, “Contained” AWS API key N/A RDS snapshot stolen Imperva Security Update Cameo 2020, February Credentials in mobile app package N/A Access to backend infrastructure, including user data Celeb Shout-Out App Cameo Exposes Private Videos and User Data Open Exchange Rates 2020, March Third-party compromise exposing access key N/A User database Exchange rate service’s customer details hacked via AWS First Republic Bank 2020, March Fired employee incompletely offboarded N/A System interruption First Republic Bank Live Auctioneers 2020, July Compromised third party software granting access to cloud environment N/A User database, including MD5 hashed credentials Washington State OAG - Live Auctioneers Twilio 2020, July S3 global write access N/A Magecart2 Incident Report: TaskRouter JS SDK Security Incident Natures Basket responsible disclosure 2020, July Hard-coded root keys in source code exposed via public S3 bucket N/A N/A GotRoot! AWS root Account Takeover Drizly 2020, July Inactive GitHub account compromised via reused password, granting AWS credential access in source code N/A RDS Instance with 2.5 million users data exfiltrated FTC Takes Action Against Drizly and its CEO James Cory Rellas for Security Failures that Exposed Data of 2.5 Million Consumers Cryptomining AMI 2020, August Windows 2008 Server Community AMI N/A Monero miner Cryptominer Found Embedded in AWS Community AMI Animal Jam 2020, November Slack compromise exposes AWS credentials N/A User database Kids' gaming website Animal Jam breached Cisco 2020, December Former employee with AWS access 5 months post-resignation N/A Deleted ~450 EC2 instances Former Cisco engineer sentenced to prison Juspay 2021, January Compromised old, unrecycled Amazon Web Services (AWS) access key N/A Masked card data, email IDs and phone numbers Data from August Breach of Amazon Partner Juspay Dumped Online 20/20 Eye Care Network and Hearing Care Network 2021, January Compromised credential N/A S3 buckets accessed then deleted 20/20 Eye Care Network and Hearing Care Network notify 3,253,822 health plan members of breach that deleted contents of AWS buckets Sendtech 2021, February (Current or former employee) Compromised credentials Created additional admin account Accessed customer data in S3 PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION COMMISSION Case No. DP-2102-B7884 LogicGate 2021, April Compromised credentials N/A Backup files in S3 stolen Risk startup LogicGate confirms data breach Ubiquiti 2021, April Compromised credentials from IT employee Lastpass (alleged former employee insider threat) N/A root administrator access to all AWS accounts, extortion Ubiquiti All But Confirms Breach Response Iniquity Uran Company 2021, July Compromised Drupal with API keys N/A Cryptomining Clear and Uncommon Story About Overcoming Issues With AWS reddoorz.com 2021, September Access Key leaked via APK N/A Customer database stolen PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION COMMISSION Case No. DP-2009-B7057 HPE Aruba 2021, October Unknown exposure of Access Key N/A Potential access to network telemetry and contact trace data Aruba Central Security Incident Kaspersky 2021, November Compromised SES token from third party N/A Phishing attacks Kaspersky's stolen Amazon SES token used in Office 365 phishing Eye Care Leaders 2021, December Unknown Unknown deleted databases and system configuration files, potential theft of 1.5M patient records Augusta University Health - Breach Disclosure [PDF] Onus 2021, December Log4Shell vulnerability in Cyclos server AmazonS3FullAccess creds (and DB creds) in Cyclos config 2 million ONUS users’ information including EKYC data, personal information, and password hash was leaked. The attack on ONUS – A real-life case of the Log4Shell vulnerability Flexbooker 2021, December Unknown Unknown 3.7M first and last names, email addresses, phone numbers, "encrypted" passwords Booking management platform FlexBooker leaks 3.7 million user records npm 2022, April Third party OAuth token compromise granting private repository access, containing AWS keys Unknown 100k users data (from 2015) npm security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth tokens PREMINT 2022, July S3 global write access Unknown NFT Theft (supply chain) Full Analysis of the PREMINT Attack Incident Uber 2022, September Contractor account compromise leading to AWS credential discovery on a shared drive Unknown N/A Uber - Security update Lastpass 2022, October Stole source code and accessed development environment via compromised developer account (an IAM User) Unknown pivot point into production environment. Later compromise of a privileged engineer's personal machine to gain access to decryption keys for stolen data Internal and customer data broadly compromised, including backups of MFA database Notice of Recent Security Incident,Incident 2 – Additional details of the attack, Breaking the Vault: A Case Study of the 2022 LastPass Data Breach Medibank 2022, October Compromised credentials Unknown Data exfiltration from Redshift / "Ransomware" Medibank now says hackers accessed all its customers’ personal data, Amazon Redshift gets new default settings to prevent data breaches Sonder 2022, November Unknown Unknown Theft of customer information, attempted extortion Security Update, Breach Notification Teqtivity (Uber Vendor) 2022, December Unknown Unknown "AWS backup server" with device and user information Breach Notification Statement, Uber suffers new data breach after attack on vendor, info leaked online CommuteAir 2023, January Publicly Exposed Jenkins with hardcoded credentials N/A 2019 FAA No Fly List how to completely own an airline in 3 easy steps, U.S. airline accidentally exposes ‘No Fly List’ on unsecured server Episource 2023, February Unauthorized access to AWS environment Ransomware 5.4 million healthcare records HIPAA Journal Coffee Meets Bagel 2023, August Unknown N/A Data deletion, 7-day service outage The Register Cloudflare 2023, November Pivot from Okta compromise due to un-rotated access token N/A N/A Cloudflare - Thanksgiving 2023 security incident Sumo Logic 2023, November Compromised credential N/A N/A Sumo Logic Security Notice Sisense 2024, April Credentials stolen from Gitlab repository N/A Terabytes of customer data exfiltrated from S3 Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense Dropbox Sign 2024, May Service account compromise N/A Customer authentication data (emails, names, API keys, OAuth tokens) A Recent Security Incident Involving Dropbox Sign pcTattletale 2024, May Application vulnerability disclosed root AWS keys N/A Data published publicly Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced, defaced site BeyondTrust 2024, December 0day vulnerability in a 3p application infrastructure API key to pivot cross-account Customer Instances compromised BeyondTrust Remote Support SaaS Service Security Investigation TinaCloud 2024, December Credentials leaked in JS file N/A SES abuse for phishing TinaCloud: Public Disclosure of Security Breach Otelier 2025, January Infostealer Credentials found in Bitbucket 8TB of data exfiltrated from S3 Otelier data breach exposes info, hotel reservations of millions Bybit / Safe{Wallet} 2025, February Compromised developer machine Malicious JavaScript via S3 bucket write access $1.5 Billion dollars stolen Bybit Interim Investigation Report AngelOne 2025, March Unknown N/A Data exfiltration Indian Stock Broker Angel One Discloses Data Breach Pearson 2025, March Exposed GitLab token in .git/config AWS credentials in source code Data exfiltration Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data KiranaPro 2025, June Former employee, post layoff N/A Service disruption Indian grocery startup KiranaPro was hacked and its servers deleted, CEO confirms, KiranaPro Crisis Explained: Ex-Employee’s Revenge Move that Paralysed the App Salesloft (Drift) 2025, August GitHub repository compromise (UNC6395) AWS environment accessed, OAuth tokens stolen 700+ Salesforce instances compromised Google Cloud, Salesloft Security Update Kodex 2025, October Fraudulent legal domain transfer order N/A Outage when domain frozen Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack Kiln 2025, October Compromised GitHub Access Token Credentials stolen from GitHub Actions, modify running API logic Cryptocurrency theft Re-enablement of Kiln services and security incident information LexisNexis 2026, February Unpatched React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) AWS Secrets Manager, Redshift, VPC databases accessed 2GB data including ~400K user profiles LexisNexis Legal & Professional confirms data breach BuddyBoss 2026, March CI/CD pipeline compromise via malicious GitHub Actions workflow SSH credentials stolen, root access on AWS server, SSH key persistence 246+ WordPress sites compromised via supply chain attack Ctrl-Alt-Intel - The BuddyBoss Attack: Full Incident Analysis European Commission 2026, March Trivy supply chain compromise (CVE-2026-33634) AWS API key stolen from CI/CD 340GB data from 71 EU entities, 52K email files CERT-EU - European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities Resolv Labs 2026, March AWS KMS compromise (suspected Cisco firewall CVE-2026-20131) KMS signing key access $23-25M stolen via unauthorized USR stablecoin minting Halborn - Explained: The Resolv Hack Cisco 2026, April Trivy supply chain compromise (CVE-2026-33634) AWS keys stolen, unauthorized cloud account access 300+ repos exfiltrated (AI projects, customer data) SANS ISC - TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign Update 007 Porter 2026, April Stale, overprivileged AWS access key IAM role chaining to customer accounts 21 customer accounts accessed, 3 GitHub repos cloned, secrets exposed Porter Security Incident Disclosure Braintrust 2026, May Unknown (under investigation) N/A Customer API keys for AI models exposed TechCrunch - Braintrust confirms breach