AT&Ts massive data breach deepens crisis for Snowflake seven weeks after hack was disclosed
Summary
Snowflake has spent the past seven weeks dealing with the fallout of a major cyberattack that compromised sensitive customer data at several of its clients. Telecommunications giant AT&T said in a regulatory filing on Friday that hackers tapped into a cloud platform housing customer data, gaining access to records of subscribers calls and text messages during a six-month period in 2022. It is the most severe incident since Snowflake disclosed the breach on May 30, writing in a blog post at the time, "We became aware of potentially unauthorized access to certain customer accounts on May 23, 2024." Mandiant wrote in a blog post last month that, through its "Victim Notification Program," the company and Snowflake have alerted 165 "potentially exposed organizations" of the incident. Prior to Friday, the most notable companies connected to the Snowflake breach were Advance Auto Parts , LendingTree, Ticketmaster operator Live Nation and Santander Bank, which said in mid-May, prior to Snowflakes disclosure, "We recently became aware of an unauthorized access to a Santander database hosted by a third-party provider."