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This is the Accellion breach, not a problem with their internal systems. This box is used for 'secure' large data transfer. Like a Dropbox appliance basically. Except Accellion write rubbish software and the devices were ruthlessly shelled. Insert :Cheeto lock: meme.

Arguably, the hundreds of Accellion clients should have separately encrypted their data and used some sort of PKI to exchange public keys. But try getting users to do that properly.

Unfortunately, since Broadcom bought Symantec there hasn't been any good PGP solution for corporate file exchange.




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