A suspect has been arrested in Canada in connection with the wave of data breaches involving Snowflake customers. Over the summer, 165 companies were hacked through their Snowflake cloud.

Canadian authorities confirm the arrest of the suspect, who was arrested on October 30. The man is suspected of being behind a series of data breaches involving Snowflake customers. He will be extradited to the US where he will appear in court.

165 victims

Last summer, at least 165 companies suffered data breaches. These included large-scale incidents, such as a hack on Ticketmaster in which data from 560 million accounts was stolen. The affected companies had one thing in common: they were Snowflake customers.

To be clear, the data breaches were not the result of a hack by Snowflake. The affected customers apparently had not adequately secured their Snowflake account. Snowflake accounts are a valuable target, especially if they are poorly secured, because Snowflake is intended to serve as a central location for all users’ corporate data.

The only thing Snowflake can be accused of in this case is that it did not sufficiently encourage customers to properly secure their accounts. MFA security was available but not required. This has now been adjusted.