Massive WWE leak exposes 3 million wrestling fans’ personal details
July 2017 by Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of High-Tech Bridge
A data leak at the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) has left the personal date of over 3 million fans exposed online and at risk of theft, or worse. The reason? An unencrypted database stored on an AWS S3 server with no password protection or access controls and security policies…
Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of web security company High-Tech Bridge, comments:
“This regrettable incident highlights once again that such fundamentals of cybersecurity as digital asset inventory, risk assessment and continuous monitoring are globally missing. When your crown jewels are floating among your partners without any control, no spending on cybersecurity will ever help. We are living in the era of machine learning and nascent AI, but we cannot ignore the fundamentals. No technology can help if cybersecurity strategy is poor or is simply missing. Once GDPR is enacted in less than a year, such carelessness can be severely punished.”