Exclusive: PR software firm exposes data on nearly 500k contacts
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. Chris Vickery, director of cyber risk research at UpGuard, first contacted the company about the exposure in October. Despite the company’s acknowledgement of the issue, Vickery observed that over the next week, the only thing that changed was the appearance of a log file for the purpose of reviewing activity related to the open repository. When contacted weeks later by CyberScoop about the exposure, a company representative said it […]
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