John Z Black

The End of Optional Security: Snowflake and the Global ID Fallout

John Z Black Apr 22, 2026

Privacy & Digital Rights #mfa #snowflake #identity #breach #france #canada-life #saas-security

Snowflake is making MFA mandatory for all new users this May. It is a massive policy shift that marks the end of the choice to be insecure in a high-risk world.

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Two Breaches Today. One Was Careful. One Was a Unlocked Door. Both Were Catastrophic.

John Z Black Apr 14, 2026

Incidents & Breaches #rockstar #shinyhunters #data-breach #snowflake #alinto #supply-chain #third-party-risk

ShinyHunters dumped 78.6 million Rockstar records after the ransom deadline expired. They never touched Rockstar directly. They went through a cloud analytics vendor. Meanwhile, a French email provider left an Elasticsearch cluster open to the internet and exposed 40 million records across L'Oreal, Renault, and French government embassies.

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