An extremely worrying new data breach has been reported at a San Francisco-based software auditing company that the general public has likely never heard of before, which probably explains why it feels like this particular breach has slipped under the radar a bit.
Nevertheless, in spite of the lack of general awareness, federal investigators probing the intrusion at this particular company, Codecov, are looking into how hackers were able to tamper with the software used by its 29,000 customers -- which also raises the ominous prospect that related, secondary breaches at other companies could result from this incident. That's because Codecov's software is used to help companies test their own software code for errors and potential vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit, which is why maliciously tampering with Codecov's software could conceivably leave all sorts of holes and vulnerabilities in companies that rely on its software.
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SolarWinds 2.0? Feds investigate hack that could impact thousands of companies originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 21:13:56 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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