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		zuck9 on July 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack Security Incident > Were our Dutch friends sifting through our messages for four years before Slack notified us of a suspicious login? The author might know this already but the hackers aren't Dutch. They simply bought a cheap NL server from LeaseWeb to mask their real IP.

nacs on July 19, 2019 [–]

> bought a cheap NL server

.. or exploited/hacked a random cheap server to use to proxy their requests and have access to high speed 100Mbit/1Gbit downloads/uploads of Slack data.

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