American software giant Citrix was notified by the FBI on March 6, 2019 that it has been hacked.
The FBI believes attackers used the “password spraying” technique to access the Citrix network. In this technique, a large number of accounts (usernames) are attempted to be accessed by a low number of commonly used password, such as “Password1” or “Summer2018”.
Once inside, the attackers worked to obtain more privileges. According to one source, 6TB of e-mails, documents and corporate secrets were stolen.
So far, there aren’t any indications that personal information was stolen.
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