Electric car manufacturer Tesla had their Amazon cloud account hacked in order to mine cryptocurrency. The hack was discovered by cybersecurity firm RedLock found unsecured information on a Kubernete’s console.
Tesla stated to Gizmodo that no customer information was compromised. RedLock CTO Gaurav Kumar stated “The recent rise of cryptocurrencies is making it far more lucrative for cybercriminals to steal organizations’ compute power rather than their data. Particular, organizations’ public cloud environments are ideal targets due to the lack of effective cloud threat defense programs. In the past few months alone, we have uncovered a number of cryptojacking incidents including the one affecting Tesla.”
RedLock also released a report Monday that claims that 8% of an estimated 58% of organizations using public cloud services have had a cryptojacking attack.
Sources
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/20/17032684/tesla-cloud-hacker-cryptocurrency-redlock
https://gizmodo.com/teslas-cloud-hacked-used-to-mine-cryptocurrency-1823155247