It was a less harmful breach than the recent ransomware attack, which was impossible to miss since it crippled affected systems until their owners paid up. A 2019 ransomware attack also rode into computers through another company's add-on software component to the Kaseya VSA, causing more limited damage than the recent attack. And in 2014, Kaseya’s own founders sued the company in a dispute over responsibility for a VSA security flaw that allowed hackers to launch a separate cryptocurrency scheme. “It points to a chronic product security issue in Kaseya’s software that remains unaddressed seven years later," she said. Privately, it was blaming the company's previous leadership for not warning about “serious vulnerabilities” in Kaseya's software.

Source: ABC News July 13, 2021 14:04 UTC