Don't Panic: Breach at software developer shouldn’t affect its customers or its future<article>
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<p>Long-time software developer Panic
alerted its customers on Wednesday via a blog post about the theft of a large portion of the source code to its Mac and iOS apps. The company maintains customer information and operates a sync service for passwords and accounts for some of its software, but its co-founder, Steven Frank, wrote in the post that private information wasn’t compromised. (We’ve asked Panic for comment, and will update this story if they have more to add.)</p><p>Frank fell afoul of a
recent Trojan horse inserted into the popular Handbrake software that
installed remote-control software on an infected Mac. The malware was used to exfiltrate Frank’s details to access the company’s code on its version-control server, although he writes that because the cracker had to guess at the names of code-storage groups, called repositories, they didn’t obtain everything.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3197356/security/dont-panic-breach-at-software-developer-shouldnt-affect-its-customers-or-its-future.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Don't Panic: Breach at software developer shouldn’t affect its customers or its future
