Ticketmaster Data Breach Exposes Millions of Customer Accounts

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Snowflake denies claims of a breach in its production environment, attributing the theft of Santander and Ticketmaster data to compromised customer login credentials. The company asserts that the attackers accessed accounts lacking two-factor authentication and that no vulnerabilities or misconfigurations in Snowflake's systems were involved. Snowflake has engaged Crowdstrike and Mandiant for incident response, confirming that the compromised accounts were demo accounts of a former employee, not linked to production or corporate systems.
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