Exclusive: PR software firm exposes data on nearly 500k contacts

guest · Dec 9, 2019

Exclusive: PR software firm exposes data on nearly 500k contacts
December 9, 2019
https://www.cyberscoop.com/iprsoftware-data-exposure-upguard-chris-vickery/

A company that sells content management software and services exposed data on 477,000 media contacts, including 35,000 hashed user passwords, to the public internet.

In October, iPRsoftware, a U.S.-based company that specializes in software that manages and disseminates company public relations and marketing, was discovered to be exposing the data along with administrative system credentials and assorted documents.
Among the documents were marketing materials for client companies, as well as credentials for the company’s Google and Twitter accounts and a MongoDB hosting provider.

The exposure shows how third-party risk expands when enterprises need businesses to grasp how to secure the information they are entrusted with.

“The consequences of compromised credentials to social media accounts are well known and can result in blatant defacement or surreptitious private messaging,” Vickery writes in a blog post.
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