Open Exchange Rates Suffers Cyberattack
Online exchange rate data provider Open Exchange Rates has exposed an undisclosed amount of user data via an Amazon database, according to a notification letter published on Twitter this week.
Open Exchange Rates provides foreign exchange data for over 200 currencies worldwide, including digital ones. Software developers can access it using an application programming interface (API). It lets software applications query the Open Exchange Rates service, which delivers their results back in a machine- and human-readable format, JSON.
The company runs its service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Unfortunately, this was the focus of a breach that started on 9 February 2020, the company said in a notification that it sent to customers on 12 March. Linux and open source engineer Sylvia van Os tweeted the notification.
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