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On February 16, a data breach that exposed the personal information of thousands of Atlassian employees led to a dispute between the Australian software firm Atlassian and Envoy, a startup that offers workplace management services.
This week, data that allegedly belonged to Atlassian was published on Telegram by a hacker organisation going by the name SiegedSec.
In addition to floor drawings of the Atlassian headquarters in San Francisco and Sydney, Australia, this information includes the names, email addresses, work departments, and phone numbers of almost 13,200 Atlassian workers.
“SiegedSec is here to announce that we have hacked the software company Atlassian,” SiegedSec said in a Telegram message. “This company worth $44 billion has been pwned by the furry hackers uwu.”
Envoy, which Atlassian uses to arrange its office spaces, was swiftly blamed for the breach.
“On February 15, 2023, we learned that data from Envoy, a third-party app that Atlassian uses to coordinate in-office resources, was compromised and published,” Atlassian spokesperson Megan Sutton said.
“Atlassian product and customer data is not accessible via the Envoy app and therefore not at risk.”
Atlassian’s assertions, however, were quickly refuted by Envoy.
According to April Marks, a spokesperson for Envoy, the startup is “not aware of any compromise to our systems,” and preliminary investigation revealed that “a hacker gained access to an Atlassian employee’s valid credentials to pivot and access the Atlassian employee directory and office floor plans held within Envoy’s app.”
Even though it now looks like Envoy was not at blame for the Atlassian data breach, the workplace management firm has a history of security concerns and counts Hulu, Pinterest, Slack, and Stripe among its high-profile clients.
The Atlassian data breach is another reminder that even the most secure organisations can be vulnerable to cyberattacks, particularly when third-party vendors are involved.
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