Stack Overflow confirms breach, but customer data said to be unaffected

guest · May 16, 2019

Stack Overflow confirms breach, but customer data said to be unaffected
May 16, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/16/stack-overflow-data-breach/

Developer knowledge sharing site Stack Overflow has confirmed hackers breached its systems, but said customer data is unaffected.
“Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow,” wrote Mary Ferguson, vice president of engineering. “We have confirmed that some level of production access was gained on May 11.”

“We have not identified any breach of customer or user data,” she said.
An investigation into the breach is ongoing.
The company otherwise remained tight-lipped about the breach, its cause and the effect. We’ve sent several questions to the company but did not immediately hear back.

Stack Overflow, founded in 2008, has more than 50 million monthly active users who use the site to share code and knowledge. It remains one of the top 50 most popular sites on the web, according to rankings by internet analytics site Alexa.
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Stack Overflow blog entry: Security Update

guest · May 16, 2019

Always funny when they say "no users datas breaches", sure... hackers only hack for fun, right...

guest · May 17, 2019

After breach, Stack Overflow says some user data exposed
May 17, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/17/stack-overflow-user-data-exposed/

The company gave few details, except that customer data was unaffected by the breach.
Now the company said the intrusion on the website began about a week earlier and “a very small number” of users had some data exposed.

“The intrusion originated on May 5 when a build deployed to the development tier for stackoverflow.com contained a bug, which allowed an attacker to log in to our development tier as well as escalate their access on the production version of stackoverflow.com,” said Mary Ferguson, vice president of engineering.
Stack Overflow’s teams, business and enterprise customers are on separate, unaffected infrastructure, she said, and there’s “no evidence” that those systems were accessed. The company’s advertising and talent business is said to be unaffected.

In response to the incident, the company terminated the unauthorized access and is conducting an “extensive” audit of its logs to gauge the level of access gained by the attacker.
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Update to Security Incident [May 17, 2019]

guest · May 17, 2019

Told ya

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