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April 28, 2019 04:34 pm

Slack Warns Investors It's a Target For Nation-State Hacking

Slack said it faces threats from "sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors" in an S-1 securities registration form published online Friday. An anonymous reader shares this report from Motherboard:The document says that these threats from organized crime and nation-states actors and affiliates are alongside "threats from traditional computer 'hackers', malicious code (such as malware, viruses, worms, and ransomware), employee theft or misuse, password spraying, phishing, credential stuffing, and denial-of-service attacks." These threats are impossible to entirely mitigate, according to the document. The S-1 filing does not claim that an attack from organized crime, nation-state, or nation-state affiliate actually happened. Rather, it just says that threats from these actors present an active risk to the company. Slack was breached in March 2015, as the company points out in its S-1 filing. For four days, an unknown person or group of people had access to Slack information that included "user names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and information" and phone numbers stored by the company. Slack introduced two-factor authentication to its services following the incident. The article also points out that Slack doesn't have end-to-end encryption, and that "in some cases, it's possible for your boss to download and read your entire Slack history without your knowledge."

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