Time capsule app Timehop suffered a July 4th #data breach affecting 21 million users
July 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Timehop, an app that resurfaces social media posts of the past, suffered a data breach on July 4th, the company revealed on Sunday. The data of 21 million users was stolen, including names, email addresses, and some phone numbers.
The hacker entered Timehop’s cloud computing account, which wasn’t protected by multi-factor authentication, transferred data, and attacked Timehop’s production database. The company said that it noticed the breach two hours after it started and was able to interrupt it, but not before user data was stolen. Users’ private messages, financial data, social media content, and Timehop data were not affected.
The attacker had actually begun accessing Timehop’s cloud computing account through an admin user’s…
