Viacom puts confidential data at risk on an unsafe amazon server

Viacom is a name that may not sound familiar to you. It is a company that owns, among others, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount. The company is now in the eye of the hurricane. The reason is that they have exposed keys and confidential data on an unsecured Amazon S3 server. Thus putting all this content at risk.

Viacom puts confidential data at risk on an unsafe Amazon server

According to the company that has discovered it, the amount of information stored on this server amounts to one gigabyte. Packed with credentials and confidential Viacom property data. All of these credentials have been exposed. Luckily discovered by the UpGuard researcher. Since otherwise they would have been used by hackers to destroy Viacom's internal infrastructure.

Viacom at serious risk

Among those details was the Viacom master key for your Amazon Web Services account. In addition to the credentials necessary to maintain the Viacom servers through its subsidiaries. The access key might have been enough for hackers to compromise the company's servers and databases. It has also been revealed that the unprotected server contained CPG decryption keys. That they can be used to unlock confidential data.

It is not known whether hackers have been able to exploit this information and access important files. At least, the company has said they have no evidence that this has happened. It seems that so far there is no material impact. Although it is not known if this may change in the coming days.

Viacom claims to have rectified the problem already. And the server has already been secured. But we do not know if these measures have come too late or not. We will see if more data is revealed in the coming days.