Attacker locked out all staff for four days
August 16, 2024 By Connor Jones
The cryptocurrency offshoot of reality TV and entrepreneurship show Unicorn Hunters has confirmed that an unknown attacker compromised its G-Suite, locking all staff out of their accounts.
Unicoin told the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the intrusion took place on August 9, a classic strategy to strike just before the weekend. Who'd want to be a defender?
The technical details of the intrusion haven't been fully revealed – investigations are ongoing – but we know that once inside, the attacker clearly had high enough privileges to change every single user account password.
Anyone with an @unicoin.com email address was locked out of Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive – you name it.
Commenting on the news, Jake Williams, VP of research and development at Hunter Strategy and IANS faculty member, said he had worked on similar cases during his time and "wouldn't wish it on anyone."