After attacking on TrueCaller and Tango, Now Syrian Electronic Army(SEA) hacked into Viber Support Page and left a deface page on the website. Hackers have also mentioned the reason behind this defacement.
“The Israeli-based ‘Viber’ is spying and tracking you . We weren’t able to hack all Viber systems, but most of it is designed for spying and tracking.” deface message reads.
After this, Viber has officially confirmed the hack. Company also confirms that the hack affected only two minor systems, a customer support panel and a support administration system. Company also confirmed that one of their employee was the weak link in this hack. He was hacked by phishing attack.
“Today the Viber Support site was defaced after a Viber employee unfortunately fell victim to an email phishing attack. The phishing attack allowed access to two minor systems: a customer support panel and a support administration system. Information from one of these systems was posted on the defaced page,” company announced.
“It is very important to emphasize that no sensitive user data was exposed and that Viber’s databases were not “hacked”. Sensitive, private user information is kept in a secure system that cannot be accessed through this type of attack and is not part of our support system,” it added.
Viber also confirmed what data was accessed in follow up announcement. It confirmed that it asks users’ country, device type, UDID, push token and few other data. No data was sensitive so users do not need to worry.
