The breach was "very sophisticated", said Detective Menard from the technological crime unit of Toronto Police.
Bets on whether the "sophisticated" attack turned out to be a run-of-the-mill employee phishing e-mail or a brute force attack on an unsecured server with root login?
Or the officers are preparing an early excuse for not being able to apprehend the criminals later on. Which is a likely outcome considering the track record of these types of non-financially motivated attacks recently.
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The breach was "very sophisticated", said Detective Menard from the technological crime unit of Toronto Police.
Bets on whether the "sophisticated" attack turned out to be a run-of-the-mill employee phishing e-mail or a brute force attack on an unsecured server with root login?
"Very sophisticated" simply means the responding officers didn't immediately understand the attack. That isn't a very high bar imho.
Or the officers are preparing an early excuse for not being able to apprehend the criminals later on. Which is a likely outcome considering the track record of these types of non-financially motivated attacks recently.
The hacking part tends to be easy. Especially for soft targets like a dating site.
The hard part is:
- exfiltrating large amounts of data without detection
- not getting caught afterwards