Veeam Data Incident: Update from Peter McKay
Data privacy is something that Veeam takes very seriously. Unfortunately, this week, we had an incident where one of our marketing databases was mistakenly left visible to unauthorized third parties. One of our Veeam core values is transparency and I want to be very open and honest about this issue – this is what our employees, customers and partners deserve. Our goal is to share so our community can learn from our situation.
During some maintenance of our network, this single marketing database containing marketing records (that may include names, e-mail addresses and IP addresses) was left visible and exposed due to human error. While the database was not easily accessible, it was visible to unauthorized third parties. Once we validated ... Read more