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Cloudflare denies data leak after 3M customer IP addresses found on the dark web


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:45:51 +0000 (UTC)

https://siliconangle.com/2020/07/27/cloudflare-denies-data-leak-3m-customer-ip-addresses-found-dark-web/

By Duncan Riley
SiliconAngle.com
July 27, 2020

Network security firm Cloudflare Inc. today denied a report that it suffered a data leak after the records of some 3 million customers were found on the shady corner of the internet called the dark web.

The claim comes from the National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, which said the data included real IP addresses of websites that should have been hidden to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. The NCCC noted that the records included 45 gov.ua domains, or Ukrainian government domains, and more than 6,500 .ua domains, including “resources belonging to critical infrastructure objects.”

“The NCCC experts have already analyzed the information regarding Ukrainian websites: information on some resources is outdated. However, the other part remains relevant,” Interfax Ukraine reported. “Owners of compromised resources are encouraged, if possible, to promptly change the IP addresses of web resources and increase the monitoring of cyberattacks on these resources.”

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