Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by markdown on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:46PM
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Can't blame you for being hacked, but how can security be "core to who we are" if it took 6 months to discover a breach?
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In a perfect world companies would recognize and react to security breaches almost as soon as they happen. But if you have ever managed the logging pipeline or incident response practice for a company, you understand that this is deeply unrealistic.
There is virtually no company which discovers that it has been breached within a short period of time - the nature of a security breach is such that it doesn't generally become apparent until some time later. This pattern continually plays itself out with just about every large breach you can think of.
In that respect, considering Weebly actually hashed their passwords with bcrypt and is reacting to the breach in the same year, they're fairly far ahead of the curve on this one.
Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by mordocai on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:45PM
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Discovering a breach is arguably the hardest part.
Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by bigtones on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:25PM
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They did not discover the breach, it was reported to them.
Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by user5994461 on Friday October 21, 2016 @05:56AM
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FYI: The median time to discover a breach is "infinite".
6 months is much better than the median :D
Re:Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
by tptacek on Thursday October 20, 2016 @11:50PM
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You're describing basically every breach ever.