A security mishap left Remine wide open to hackers

“The misconfiguration was found in Remine’s development environment, which although protected by a password, let anyone outside the company register an account to log in.
Thinking it was a secure space, Remine’s developers shared private keys, secrets and other passwords, which if exploited by a malicious hacker would have allowed access to the company’s Amazon Web Services storage servers, databases and also the company’s private Slack workspace.”

Yikes! It looks like the security firm who hacked their site got access to a ton of data. According to TechCrunch…

One of the documents seen by TechCrunch showed personal information, including names, home addresses and other personally identifiable information belonging to a rental tenant.

Good news the security firm was doing this for publicity (I’m assuming), and not for any malicious purposes.

While the timing of this type of situation is never good, in the case of Remine it couldn’t be worse, as CoreLogic’s Clareity MLS Executive Workshop starts tomorrow in Scottsdale. With a ton of MLS executives in attendance, I’m pretty sure this will be numero uno topic of conversation in the lobby bar.