Mandiant reveals Snowflake data breach affecting 165 customers, accessed by financially motivated UNC5537.

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant revealed a recent data breach involving Snowflake, a cloud data analytics platform, affecting at least 165 customers. The financially motivated threat actor, UNC5537, accessed the accounts using valid credentials stolen from previous malware campaigns. Mandiant has notified the affected organizations, and Snowflake is working with law enforcement and security firms to investigate the hack. The company plans to enforce MFA on its customers' accounts but has not provided a timeline.