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Imperva Firewall Breach Exposes Customer API Keys, SSL Certificates

August 28, 2019

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Imperva, the security vendor, has made a security breach public that affects customers using the Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) product.

Formerly known as Incapsula, the Cloud WAF analyzes requests coming into applications, and flags or blocks suspicious and malicious activity.

Users’ emails and hashed and salted passwords were exposed, and some customers’ API keys and SSL certificates were also impacted. The latter are particularly concerning, given that they would allow an attacker to break companies’ encryption and access corporate applications directly.

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