{"id":24990,"date":"2019-02-06T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/29796\/Data-Leak-Revealed-At-South-Africas-Main-Electricity-Provider.html"},"modified":"2019-02-06T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:58:54","slug":"data-leak-revealed-at-south-africas-main-electricity-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/data-leak-revealed-at-south-africas-main-electricity-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Leak Revealed At South Africa&#8217;s Main Electricity Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what may be a case of &#8220;if we ignore it, it will go away,&#8221; South Africa&#8217;s largest electricity company has become the subject of the public exposure of customer data after ignoring researcher pleas to resolve the problem.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relatedContent alignRight\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"><span class=\"int\">More security news<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskom.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eskom<\/a> is South Africa&#8217;s state-owned electricity company which generates approximately 95 percent of the region&#8217;s electricity, as well as roughly 45 percent of all of the electricity used across the African continent.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>On Tuesday, cybersecurity researcher Devin Stokes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DevinStokes\/status\/1092893890548506629\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent a public tweet<\/a> to Eskom which appears inlaid with frustration at non-communicativeness from the electricity provider.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stokes said, &#8220;You don&#8217;t respond to several disclosure emails, email from journalistic entities, or Twitter DMs, but how about a public tweet? This is going on for weeks here. You need to remove this data from the public view!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/software-exec-jailed-after-exploiting-atm-loophole-to-steal-1-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">Software executive exploits ATM loophole to steal $1 million<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following image contains a screenshot of what appears to be customer and service-related data, including account IDs, start and end service dates, and meter information:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/02\/06\/0eb1da8a-d643-457a-9474-3eebc140e66d\/d86a4bb73d8d9217b0ced3af551c36c3\/screenshot-2019-02-06-at-09-10-18.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"screenshot-2019-02-06-at-09-10-18.png\"\/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Several hours later, Stokes published a further screenshot with a live timestamp, commenting, &#8220;OK. It got worse.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this database entry contained some of the financial data of a customer, including name, card type, a partial card number, and CVV, the three-digit security code which is required for purchases in-person or online. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hackers-reveal-data-leak-at-south-africas-main-electricity-provider-on-twitter\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"screenshot-2019-02-06-at-12-37-29.png\" data-original=\" https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/02\/06\/47d5664c-3ab6-452a-874c-fae218e466c6\/60ef82b29062a2cc960d1e22ab2467f9\/screenshot-2019-02-06-at-12-37-29.png\"\/><\/span><noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/02\/06\/47d5664c-3ab6-452a-874c-fae218e466c6\/60ef82b29062a2cc960d1e22ab2467f9\/screenshot-2019-02-06-at-12-37-29.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"screenshot-2019-02-06-at-12-37-29.png\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_ZD_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>According to the researcher, the electricity provider has left its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olihough86\/status\/1092847700238876677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">billing software database<\/a> exposed, lacking so much as a password.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent customer estimates available,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/129968\/how-much-money-eskom-makes-per-customer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published in 2016,<\/a>\u00a0claim that Eskom accounts for roughly 5.7 million customers across South Africa. It is not known how many customers may have been involved in the reported breach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>TechRepublic:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/why-your-business-needs-to-work-with-the-government-to-fight-cyber-warfare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why your business needs to work with the government to fight cyber warfare<\/a><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>However, this may not be the only security failure Eskom needs to grapple with &#8212; as one of the company&#8217;s own employees may have complicated matters further in their gaming enthusiasm.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In a screenshot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sS55752750\/status\/1092423369042128897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted by MalwareHunterTeam<\/a>, another Twitter user warned Eskom of the existence of a Trojan on one of their networked, corporate machines. The user reported that the Trojan infected the machine through a fake SIMS 4 game installer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/hackers-reveal-data-leak-at-south-africas-main-electricity-provider-on-twitter\/\" class=\"lazy\" alt=\"screenshot-2019-02-06-at-09-21-58.png\" data-original=\" https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/02\/06\/56eab4e3-f280-487c-8a37-1b6da16fdc6f\/7b4b07b88826bef6fa8e50a21627507b\/screenshot-2019-02-06-at-09-21-58.png\"\/><\/span><noscript><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/2019\/02\/06\/56eab4e3-f280-487c-8a37-1b6da16fdc6f\/7b4b07b88826bef6fa8e50a21627507b\/screenshot-2019-02-06-at-09-21-58.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"screenshot-2019-02-06-at-09-21-58.png\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The Twitter user, going under the handle &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sS55752750\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@sS55752750<\/a>,&#8221; added that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sS55752750\/status\/1093076174971039744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offending employee<\/a> is a &#8220;senior infrastructure advisor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While there has been no news on the exposed database, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eskom_SA\/status\/1093049399557742592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eskom did thank<\/a> the researcher who disclosed the Trojan&#8217;s existence, saying, &#8220;This has been investigated and the necessary actions have been taken. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accidental breaches of this type further drive home the point that every company should have a formal process to accept vulnerability reports from external third parties,&#8221; Jon Bottarini, Lead Technical Program Manager for HackerOne told ZDNet in response to the news. &#8220;Exposing the vulnerability details on Twitter seems to have been the last-ditch attempt on behalf of the security researcher to try and get in contact with someone who can resolve the issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNET:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-pages-will-shut-down-on-april-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google+ pages will shut down on April 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 12.47 GMT<\/strong>: Eskom told ZDNet that the company is &#8220;conducting investigations to determine whether sensitive Eskom information was compromised as a result of this incident,&#8221; but will not comment 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