Snowflake at centre of world’s largest data breach

The article describes a major data breach in which attackers used credentials harvested by infostealers to access Snowflake demo and customer databases, resulting in widespread data exfiltration; Snowflake and customers lacked robust MFA on affected accounts, and incident response teams (CrowdStrike, Mandiant) are engaged while the author urges stronger authentication and secure-by-design defaults from cloud providers.