“Our tech team moved quickly to shut the attackers out and make sure our systems are protected.” This is what Siobhán O’Donoghue, executive director of Uplift, told those on its mailing list on August 17 about how it was among a host of entities impacted by a global hack. Two weeks earlier, on August 3, the ShinyHunters hacker collective took advantage of a zero-day security vulnerability to access the cloud system used by Metabase, the business intelligence and data analytics software company with clients across the globe.  They targeted Metabase’s system to reset a forgotten password, sending malicious code hidden…

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