{"id":47952,"date":"2022-08-12T00:58:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/faangs-failing-on-keeping-user-data-safe-from-bug-hunters\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T00:58:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:58:32","slug":"faangs-failing-on-keeping-user-data-safe-from-bug-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/faangs-failing-on-keeping-user-data-safe-from-bug-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"FAANGs failing on keeping user data safe from bug hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"label\">Black Hat<\/span> Dylan Ayrey, a bug hunter and CEO of Truffle Security, discovered a big data company credential dump containing personal information belonging to about 50,000 of its users, and still hasn&#8217;t fixed it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This happened while he was researching <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/owasp.org\/www-community\/attacks\/xss\/\">cross-site scripting (XXS) vulnerabilities<\/a>, and through the disclosure and reporting process, this data passed through several third-party systems.The bug bounty platform, XXS Hunter and Gmail, among them, not to mention his own hard drive and backups.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google in the pre-Alphabet days) biz never disclosed the dump, and Ayrey and the third parties still have access to the sensitive data.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Ayrey detailed this bug hunting expedition onstage at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, and the punch line is that this isn&#8217;t an isolated experience. There&#8217;s a ton of personal data stored on researchers&#8217; laptops and bug bounty platforms, some of which don&#8217;t require multi-factor authentication to access, Ayrey said.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I talked to a couple of friends that I know that are pretty good bug hunters, and 100 percent of them said that their Bugcrowd accounts and Hacker One accounts are exactly the same,&#8221; he said. Once they&#8217;re logged into their accounts, researchers can access and download data associated with a now-closed vulnerability tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Most <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/08\/10\/google_bug_bounty_boss\/\" rel=\"noopener\">bug bounty programs<\/a> didn&#8217;t OK Ayrey&#8217;s requests to discuss these flaws during his Black Hat talk. Google, however, did sign off on Ayrey&#8217;s talk. And after viewing it in advance \u2014 specifically the part where Ayrey disclosed accidentally ending up with &#8220;tens of thousands of user records&#8221; after disclosing an exploit that the cloud giant later fixed \u2014 Google made some changes to its systems.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Two years after finding the bug, Ayrey said he could still log in and access all of that user data. He asked Google to delete the ticket. Nothing happened. &#8220;Until a couple of days ago, when I shared an advance copy of the slide deck with them, he said, showing an email he received in response. It said:<\/p>\n<p>While the Google story had a happy ending, another similar incident ended differently. This one involved &#8220;a lot fewer user records&#8221; from a &#8220;pretty large, significant company&#8221; that had previously given Ayrey permission to name them in his session.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when they got an advanced copy of the slide deck, they actually changed their minds,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"> <span>Why do data leaks happen?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes these data dumps happen by accident, and other times it&#8217;s intentional. Often times, companies&#8217; vulnerability programs pay higher bounties to researchers that can prove the bug&#8217;s potential impact \u2014 such as by leaking sensitive information, Ayrey said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say these programs are bad: &#8220;We do believe bug bounties are a positive force for change, and that companies that run bug bounties are in a better place than companies that don&#8217;t,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>However, organizations that build bug bounties &#8220;need to be prepared for the worst,&#8221; especially if they ask security researchers to take that extra step involving user data, said attorney Whitney Merrill, Asana&#8217;s data protection officer and lead privacy counsel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need to be prepared for the consequences of what that might mean for your company [and your legal obligations as a company to potentially do breach notification,&#8221; she said. In other words: it&#8217;s time to bring the legal team into the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think about what your end-to-end program looks like and where data might leak and consider that when you&#8217;re communicating with your stakeholders,&#8221; Merrill said. &#8220;The first time that your legal team hears about your bug bounty program should not be when you have an issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, keep track of your data, including who has copies of it \u2014&nbsp;such as third-party software providers and the bug hunters themselves. For companies that use external bug bounty platforms: &#8220;ask them to allow you to set a data retention policy to have more control over your data,&#8221; she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YvYjNSfu7PuikXnU4fMYWQAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t send private information over email, Merrill continued. And by all means ask the bug hunters to delete use data, and confirm that they&#8217;re not keeping it. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/08\/12\/faang_bug_hunters\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to call in the legal team Black Hat\u00a0 Dylan Ayrey, a bug hunter and CEO of Truffle Security, discovered a big data company credential dump containing personal information belonging to about 50,000 of its users, and still hasn&#8217;t fixed it.\u00a0\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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