I am an ATT user and on a pixel which generally good at filtering spam messages. I have noticed I was getting so much spam messages recently ("wanna make money working remotely for x hours a day only") I was surprised and thought my number somehow made it to one of those spam networks. This confirms my suspicions.
AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
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#62How has Snowflake felt ANY recourse for being the source of all of these hacks?
its not Snowflake's fault their customers used weak passwords and no MFA. Not enforcing MFA does merit some blame on Snowflake, however, I still think its on the customer to secure your own environment.
Snowflake is saying they knew of unusual activity "around mid-April 2024", confirmed "May 23, 2024", around which time they made MFA mandatory (although their customer AT&T say they knew of the breach "Mar 20"; these timelines keep shifting back):
"Mandatory MFA option unveiled by Snowflake" - Jul 11, 2024 https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/mandatory-mfa-option-unveil...
> "US cloud storage firm Snowflake has already required the implementation of multi-factor authentication across all user accounts a month following the widespread breach of customer accounts, including those of Ticketmaster and Santander Bank, reports The Register."
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I share the sentiment, Normie Norman is not at fault. Meta and other BigCorps are the perpetrators and Norman the Victim.
I have to disagree. He is a fault. Ultimately, you are the only person who really should care about your own security. When you delegate that responsibility, you are still the one who made that choice.
I don’t think it’s fair to blame people for not understanding the subtleties of encrypted communication.
Everyone only has so much attention to give.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but you have to admit once you really see Normie Norman you come to understand aristocracy. At least I do anyway.
https://dwm.suckless.org/ > Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist.
Not in the way of a narcissist trying to separate himself from the group, but to see that Norman is very much susceptible to cow-like behaviors you can leverage. That's what I mean by understanding aristocracy. Aristocrat : Rancher.
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#65Snowflake might want to take this page down in light of today's news.
https://www.snowflake.com/en/customers/all-customers/case-st...
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#67Another article[1] cites AT&T's Snowflake deployment as the source of the breach:
> It’s not clear for what reason AT&T was storing customer data in Snowflake, and the spokesperson would not say.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-d...
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#68> In a statement, AT&T said that the stolen data contains phone numbers of both cellular and landline customers, as well as AT&T records of calls and text messages — such as who contacted who by phone or text — during a six-month period between May 1, 2022 and October 31, 2022. AT&T customer? Prepare for phone calls / text messages from your most frequent contacts saying "I got stranded / I'm Officer Blahblahman help…
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#69This is another consequence of the surveillance state. The same data that can be used to surveil us by the government can be stolen by who-knows-who. We’d all (mostly) be far better off, IMO, if companies didn’t retain such records.
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#70AT&T stock has already bounced back from much of the initial -2.6% drop this morning, so the market thinks AT&T is immune. Meanwhile Snowflake is -3.9% down (they have many other customers than AT&T).