Asus employees accidentally leaked their passwords on github
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Bad week for ASUS, after discovering a few days ago a security flaw in its servers, the problems continue for the signature. In this case, because their employees mistakenly leaked their corporate passwords on GitHub. A news that surely will not like too much within the direction of the company. Since it is a huge security breach, with great consequences.
ASUS employees accidentally leaked their passwords on GitHub
A security investigator, named SchizoDuckie, has been tasked with revealing this finding. It has been known in the past few hours , as several American media have officially confirmed.
New security flaw in ASUS
The security researcher also shared several screenshots, showing that ASUS employees mistakenly shared their corporate email passwords. This is something that happened in a repository on GitHub. The company has confirmed that they are currently conducting an investigation on all of their systems.
So that they will be able to ensure that nothing serious has happened in them. Since up to now it could not be guaranteed that there had not been any leakage of sensitive data. Also, attackers could have carried out phishing attacks in this way.
Although these data have fallen into the hands of a security researcher. Which undoubtedly decreases the risk. But ASUS is expected to confirm in the next few hours whether there has been any leakage of sensitive information or not. In principle it seems that this is not the case, but the company wants to insure itself.
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