DataBreaches.Net

Menu
  • About
  • Breach Notification Laws
  • Privacy Policy
  • Transparency Report
Menu

Two Official Kaspersky Websites Hacked

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Dissent

Lucian Constantin reports:

A grey hat hacker has found a critical SQL injection weakness on the official Kaspersky Lab websites in Malaysia and Singapore. Exploiting the vulnerability leads to full compromise of the underlying database, which contains customer information, product keys and other sensitive data.

The attack has been documented by a Romanian hacker calling himself “Unu” (“one” or “someone” in Romanian). The self-confessed security enthusiast specializes in finding SQL injection vulnerabilities on high-profile websites belonging to well known IT companies, antivirus vendors, banks, media outlets or public institutions.

Unu’s rise to fame on the Internet ironically began in February 2009, when he hacked Kaspersky Lab’s U.S. support site and gained access to the customer database. Following that highly publicized incident, Kaspersky hired world-renowned database security expert David Litchfield to perform an audit on all websites run by the company.

That investigation must have missed something, because the grey hat just performed a nearly identical hack on Kaspersky’s Malaysia and Singapore websites. “Although they are two different domains, databases are identical, being on the same MySQL server,” unu explains on his blog, concluding that this is inappropriate for a company of this size.

The sensitive data contained in this database include personal customer information such as name, username, e-mail, home address, postcode, city, state, country and encrypted password. Almost 13,000 product keys for Kaspersky Antivirus and Kaspersky Internet Security are also available.

Read more on Softpedia.com

Category: Breach IncidentsBusiness SectorHack

Post navigation

← Businesses still plagued by data breaches
UK: Action taken after tenants’ personal files go missing →

Now more than ever

"Stand with Ukraine:" above raised hands. The illustration is in blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine's flag.

Search

Browse by Categories

Recent Posts

  • Fraudsters, murderers, students: who the GRU assembled a team of hacker provocateurs from and why it failed
  • Order of Psychologists of Lombardy fined 30,000 € for inadequate data security protection and detection following ransomware attack
  • Lower Merion School District says a data breach was caused by a computer glitch
  • After $1 Million Ransom Demand, Virgin Islands Lottery Restores Operations Without Paying Hackers
  • Junior Defence Contractor Arrested For Leaking Indian Naval Secrets To Suspected Pakistani Spies
  • Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump
  • Resource: HoganLovells Asia-Pacific Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity Guide 2025
  • Class action settlement following ransomware attack will cost Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center about $52 million
  • Comstar LLC agrees to corrective action plan and fine to settle HHS OCR charges
  • Australian ransomware victims now must tell the government if they pay up

No, You Can’t Buy a Post or an Interview

This site does not accept sponsored posts or link-back arrangements. Inquiries about either are ignored.

And despite what some trolls may try to claim: DataBreaches has never accepted even one dime to interview or report on anyone. Nor will DataBreaches ever pay anyone for data or to interview them.

Want to Get Our RSS Feed?

Grab it here:

https://databreaches.net/feed/

RSS Recent Posts on PogoWasRight.org

  • Fears Grow Over ICE’s Reach Into Schools
  • Resource: HoganLovells Asia-Pacific Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity Guide 2025
  • She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.
  • Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
  • Watch out for activist judges trying to deprive us of our rights to safe reproductive healthcare
  • Nebraska Bans Minor Social Media Accounts Without Parental Consent
  • Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Have a News Tip?

Email: Tips[at]DataBreaches.net

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

Contact Me

Email: info[at]databreaches.net

Mastodon: Infosec.Exchange/@PogoWasRight

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

DMCA Concern: dmca[at]databreaches.net
© 2009 – 2025 DataBreaches.net and DataBreaches LLC. All rights reserved.