In light of the breaking news that European data center services giant Interxion is informing customers that it has suffered a security breach, which has seen hackers access contact information stored in its CRM about corporate clients and prospects, below are comments by two of the UK's top cyber security experts:
Luke Jennings, Researcher at Countercept says: "This shows that in 2016 even large organisations for which security is a top priority are still being compromised. Attack detection has become increasingly important as people are beginning to realise that no company can prevent every compromise and so it is imperative that they are able to detect and respond to them when they occur.
"In this case, customers of Interxion should also be concerned about potential targeted phishing attacks purporting to be from Interxion as someone out there now clearly knows a lot about them."
Cris Thomas, Strategist at Tenable Network Security adds: "Interxion said the breach was due to a compromise of local credentials to the CRM system. Credentials are becoming an increasingly valuable target for attackers who are looking to compromise networks. Companies who practice good cyber hygiene should be auditing user credentials on a regular basis.
"It looks like the only data impacted in this incident was contact details, so there should be little risk of identity theft or financial fraud, however users who received a warning from Interxion should be on the look out for such activity.
"The information obtained by the attacks would be of value to attackers looking to conduct spear phishing campaigns, fake tech support fraud or other social engineering attacks. Security teams at companies that are Interxion customers should be extra vigilant."