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ShinyHunters has released 78.6 million records stolen from Rockstar Games, following the company's refusal to pay a ransom by the April 14 deadline. The breach did not involve Rockstar's own systems: attackers compromised Anodot, a third-party SaaS analytics vendor with direct access to Rockstar's Snowflake data warehouse. No player records were exposed, but the incident illustrates the persistent enterprise risk of SaaS vendor data access.
The third-party security ratings industry has built a billion-dollar business on a simple premise: that an outside-in scan of your suppliers' infrastructure tells you something meaningful about their security posture. It doesn't. And the gap between what these tools imply and what they deliver is creating a false sense of supply chain security in boardrooms everywhere.
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