OneLogin has revealed more about the attack Attack.Databreach on its systems , confirming that a `` threat actor '' had accessed Attack.Databreach database tables including `` information about users , apps , and various types of keys . '' It warned once again that the malefactor , who was able to rifle through OneLogin 's infrastructure for seven hours , may have been able to decrypt customer data . The company said : Our review has shown that a threat actor obtained access Attack.Databreach to a set of AWS keys and used them to access the AWS API from an intermediate host with another , smaller service provider in the US . Evidence shows the attack started on May 31 , 2017 around 2 am PST . Through the AWS API , the actor created several instances in our infrastructure to do reconnaissance . OneLogin staff was alerted of unusual database activity around 9 am PST and within minutes shut down the affected instance as well as the AWS keys that were used to create it . One customer affected by the OneLogin attack told Ars that he was having to `` rebuild the whole authentication security system ... OUCH ! '' OneLogin told fretful customers in an internal notification that they would need to work through a number of steps to secure their accounts , including generation of new API credentials and OAuth tokens . Any users served by the firm 's US data centre have been hit by the breach , OneLogin said . `` While we encrypt certain sensitive data at rest , at this time we can not rule out the possibility that the threat actor also obtained Attack.Databreach the ability to decrypt data , '' OneLogin said . `` We are thus erring on the side of caution and recommending actions our customers should take , which we have already communicated to our customers . '' OneLogin has admitted that the single sign-on ( SSO ) and identity management firm has suffered a data breach Attack.Databreach . However its public statement is vague about the nature of the attack . An e-mail to customers provides a bit of detail—warning them that their data may have been exposed . And a support page that is only accessible to OneLogin account holders is even more worrying for customers . It apparently says that `` customer data was compromised Attack.Databreach , including the ability to decrypt encrypted data . '' OneLogin—which claims to offer a service that `` secures connections across all users , all devices , and every application '' —said on Thursday that it had `` detected unauthorised access '' in the company 's US data region . It added in the post penned by OneLogin CISO Alvaro Hoyos : We have since blocked this unauthorised access , reported the matter to law enforcement , and are working with an independent security firm to determine how the unauthorised access happened and verify the extent of the impact of this incident . We want our customers to know that the trust they have placed in us is paramount . While our investigation is still ongoing , we have already reached out to impacted customers with specific recommended remediation steps and are actively working to determine how best to prevent such an incident from occurring in the future and will update our customers as these improvements are implemented . It has given customers a long list of actions to protect their accounts following the attack . It 's unclear why it is that OneLogin has provided three different sets of information to its customers . It 's possible the company was hoping to only disclose more detail to those directly affected by the attack to avoid revealing potential weaknesses that may have exposed the data in the first place . But that attempt to keep the information under wraps has clearly backfired as customers scramble to secure their accounts . This is the second data breach Attack.Databreach that OneLogin has suffered within the past year . Last August it warned customers of a cleartext login bug on its Secure Notes service , after `` an unauthorised user gained access to one of our standalone systems , which we use for log storage and analytics . '' Hoyos apologised for that particular breach . `` We are making every effort to prevent any similar occurrence in the future , '' he said at the time .

A maker of Internet-connected stuffed animal toys has exposed Attack.Databreach more than 2 million voice recordings of children and parents , as well as e-mail addresses and password data for more than 800,000 accounts . He said searches using the Shodan computer search engine and other evidence indicated that , since December 25 and January 8 , the customer data was accessed Attack.Databreach multiple times by multiple parties , including criminals who ultimately held the data for ransom Attack.Ransom . The recordings were available on an Amazon-hosted service that required no authorization to access . The data was exposed Attack.Databreach by Spiral Toys , maker of the CloudPets line of stuffed animals . The toys record and play voice messages that can be sent over the Internet by parents and children . The MongoDB database of 821,296 account records was stored by a Romanian company called mReady , which Spiral Toys appears to have contracted with . Hunt said that , on at least four occasions , people attempted to notify the toy maker of the breach Attack.Databreach . In any event , evidence left behind by the ransom demanders made it almost certain company officials knew of the intrusions Attack.Ransom . Hunt wrote : It 's impossible to believe that CloudPets ( or mReady ) did not know that firstly , the databases had been left publicly exposed Attack.Databreach and secondly , that malicious parties had accessed Attack.Databreach them . Obviously , they 've changed the security profile of the system , and you simply could not have overlooked the fact that a ransom had been left Attack.Ransom . So both the exposed database Attack.Databreach and intrusion Attack.Ransom by those demanding the ransom Attack.Ransom must have been identified yet this story never made the headlines . Further ReadingInternet-connected Hello Barbie doll gets bitten by nasty POODLE crypto bugThe breach is the latest to stoke concerns about the privacy and security of Internet-connected toys . In November 2015 , tech news site Motherboard disclosed the hack Attack.Databreach of toy maker VTech in a breach Attack.Databreach that exposed Attack.Databreach the names , e-mail addresses , passwords , and home addresses of almost 5 million adults , as well as the first names , genders and birthdays of more than 200,000 kids . A month later , a researcher found Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that an Internet-connected Barbie doll made by Mattel contained vulnerabilities that might allow hackers to intercept real-time conversations . In addition to storing the customer databases in a publicly accessible location , Spiral Toys also used an Amazon-hosted service with no authorization required to store the recordings , customer profile pictures , children 's names , and their relationships to parents , relatives , and friends . In Monday 's post , Hunt acknowledged the help of Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai , who published this report . Oddly enough , for a product with such lax security , the service used the ultra-secure bcrypt hashing function to protect passwords . Unfortunately , CloudPets had one of the most permissive password policies ever . It allowed , for instance , a passcode of the single character `` a '' or the short keyboard sequence `` qwe . '' `` What this meant is that when I passed the bcrypt hashes into [ password cracking app ] hashcat and checked them against some of the world 's most common passwords ( 'qwerty , ' 'password , ' '123456 , ' etc . ) along with the passwords 'qwe ' and 'cloudlets , ' I cracked a large number in a very short time , '' Hunt wrote . Further ReadingHow to search the Internet of Things for photos of sleeping babiesThe lesson that emerged long ago is that the security of so-called Internet of things products is so poor that it often outweighs any benefit afforded by an Internet-connected appliance . As the CloudPets debacle underscores , the creep factor involved in Internet-connected toys makes the proposition even worse