Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas hosting company uses ScienceLogic software internally for system monitoring and providing a dashboard to users. Rackspace has suffered a data breach exposing customer monitoring data after threat actors exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party tool used by the ScienceLogic SL1 platform. However, it appears the attackers were able to pivot to Rackspace internal monitoring web servers to pilfer sensitive data.

As the third-party utility may be used on several other products, ScienceLogic declined to name the third-party utility to avoid providing hints to other hackers. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page