The owner of the account happened to be Tesla, they said.
Clearly, someone else had launched instances that were already mining cryptocurrency in this particular Tesla environment.
Those credentials provided unfettered access to non-public Tesla information stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets.
They were also uncertain as to how long the intruders had access.
As the values of cryptocurrencies rise we are seeing an epidemic.
Campbell also said that these hackers get easy profits from cryptomining rather than traditional data extraction.
Meanwhile, Tesla quickly rectified the cryptojacking issue after it was notified by RedLock.
RedLock CTO Gaurav Kumar said businesses should monitor doubtful cyber activities to avoid being exploited.
He added: However, security is a shared responsibility.
Without that, anything the providers do will never be enough.
source: www.techworm.net
