Cosmetics Giant Avon Leaks 19 Million Records

guest · Jul 28, 2020

Cosmetics Giant Avon Leaks 19 Million Records
July 28, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cosmetics-giant-avon-leaks-19/

A misconfigured cloud server at global cosmetics brand Avon was recently discovered leaking 19 million records including personal information and technical logs.

Researchers at SafetyDetectives led by Anurag Sen told Infosecurity that they found the Elasticsearch database on an Azure server publicly exposed with no password protection or encryption.

“The vulnerability effectively means that anyone possessing the server’s IP address could access the company’s open database,” it explained in a subsequent report.
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It contained personally identifiable information (PII) on customers and potentially employees, including full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, email and home addresses, and GPS coordinates. Also included in the haul were 40,000+ security tokens, OAuth tokens, internal logs, account settings and technical server information.

Interestingly, a June 9 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the firm had suffered a “cyber-incident in its information technology environment which has interrupted some systems and partially affected operations.”
A second filing on June 12 claimed that the firm was planning a restart of its systems.
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SafetyDetectives: Cybersecurity vulnerability at major cosmetics brand leads to 7 gigabytes+ data leak

Worryingly, the leak exposed reams of technical logs which could be used to not only target Avon customers but also Avon’s IT infrastructure directly, thereby leading to further security risks and financial ramifications.
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