![]() " Our investigation revealed no other server or services were impacted. " The issue was immediately resolved, and additional security measures have been put in place to prevent its reoccurrence, " the company’s spokesperson said in a statement. The Romanian security company admitted its system was breached and said that the attack on its system didn’t penetrate the server, but a security hole " potentially enabled exposure of a few user accounts and passwords ". They always score very high on the quarterly industry tests at Virus bulletin. Thing is, in the AV industry, BitDefender is known as one of the best AV engines out there, if not the best. You would really expect Infosec people like BitDefender to apply common security principles to their own website and not get caught with their pants down in a SQL injection hack which then exposes unencrypted customer passwords. ![]() ![]() Mohit Kumar, Founder and Editor-in-Chief had the scoop and his analysis hit the nail on the head: " The Data breach in BitDefender is incredibly embarrassing for the security firm, not because the company failed to prevent its customers data from hackers, but because the Security company failed to encrypt its customers’ most sensitive data. ![]()
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