Companies worldwide are constantly victims of cyber
attacks; the new member of the club is the Mixcloud music company, which due to
a security breach compromised 21 million user registrations according to cyber
security awareness course experts.
Through a social media statement, the direct
competition company of SoundCloud apologized to its users for the
inconvenience, regretting the frustration that the news may cause them, assured
that they will take user data protection very seriously and also explained that
About 21 million records were extracted from its server.
Thanks to a report prepared by experts, we know that
this information is already on sale in a deep web portal by an user called
“A_W_S” which asks the amount of .5 BTC Bitcoins for the information, which
translates into approximately $ 3,750 dlls.
According to experts, this user on previous occasions
also came to compromise information from the companies Canva, Chegg and StockX,
Luckily, the London-based music company clarified that
the records are only consist on emails, IP addresses and very few passwords,
because most passwords are managed by Facebook, because users prefer to
register that way since it’s faster
Although it is a very small percentage of compromised
passwords, we recommend changing your passwords immediately. Password reuse for
several websites is one of the reasons why security breaches are so valuable to
attackers. The best practice with passwords is to create a unique one for each
digital service as per experts from International Institute Cyber Security.
The MixCloud company has several security protocols
for its users, for example, they do not store payment card information or
postal addresses and the passwords they store are encrypted with salty
cryptographic hashes to prevent any third party from accessing them, all this
as part of its modern DSP security structure.
Cyber
security awareness course experts recommend The music company is already
working with the authorities to try to recover their records and to improve
their security systems
Information security specialist, currently working as risk infrastructure specialist & investigator.
15 years of experience in risk and control process, security audit support, business continuity design and support, workgroup management and information security standards.
