25 October 2026 - 07:41
Category: Breach
GMO Learns What Passwords Are For
GMO Internet let intruders harvest trading passwords from Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, sparking lovely unauthorized losses. Why do we even bother with logins?
Source: The Japan News
The Full Story
Same story, different day, as GMO Internet managed to let malicious visitors rummage through Onamae.com Desktop Cloud to nick investor passwords. Individual traders were naturally the ones left counting unauthorized transaction losses while extortion demands rained down upon the platform. Protecting ourselves from this utterly predictable pantomime requires actually safeguarding authentication details and customer credentials so intruders cannot simply waltz into cloud trading systems and empty client accounts.