P2019-ND-208

Mountain Equipment Coop

The Organization?s online ecommerce platform was attacked with a botnet between the period of July 23-August 8. The botnet was doing a credential stuffing attack and attempting to use stolen credentials to log into mec.ca. Some of the credentials belonged to members and so the bot was successful at logging into 2,335 member online accounts. The breach was discovered on August 1, 2019 through log reviews by the Organization?s ecommerce team.

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