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Amit Shuster

The Vimeo breach and the dangers of delegated trust

Back view of hooded internet criminal hacking laptop in the dark, stealing credit card details.

At the end of April, Vimeo, the second-largest video hosting, sharing, and streaming service after YouTube, publicly confirmed it had suffered a data breach affecting around 119,000 users and customers.

As is often the case, however, the devil is in the details. ShinyHunters, the ransomware group that claimed responsibility, threatened to release Vimeo data on the dark web after breaching the defenses of Anodot, an analytics company that provides real-time anomaly detection.

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