New hack on Comodo reseller exposes private data

[leofelix]

New hack on Comodo reseller exposes private data (And then there were four)

Yet another official reseller of SSL certificate authority Comodo has suffered a security breach that allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access to data.

Brazil-based ComodoBR is at least the fourth Comodo partner to be compromised this year. In March, the servers of a separate registration authority were hacked by attackers who used their access to forge counterfeit certificates signed with Comodo's root signing key. Comodo admitted that two more of its resellers were hit in similar attacks, although no keys were issued.

Comodo has so far declined to name the resellers.

The SQL-injection attack on ComodoBR exploited vulnerabilities in the company's web applications that allowed the hackers to pass database commands to the website's backend server. The attackers posted two data files that appeared to show information related to certificate signing requests, in addition to email addresses, user IDs, and password information for a limited number of employees.

Comodo president and CEO, Melih Abdulhayoglu, said Comodo systems were never compromised. He also said no certificates were issued as a result of the breach, and that the reseller had no access to Comodo databases.

Read more: (The Register)

[INDRANIL]

Another security breach . Thanks for the info captain .

[JayCub]

Thank you for the news Leo, i like Melih myself and use Comodo from time to time, although they have addressed the issue, it does make you think twice about Comodo and its security issues, more so as alot of buisnesses use Comodo for online purchasers.