In January, equipment vendor Ubiquiti told customers to reset their passwords due to a security breach involving a third-party cloud provider. The announcement appeared to be a relatively routine security warning. Such alerts among equipment vendors have become increasingly common as the noise around cybersecurity continues to rise. However, the situation took on added weight when security researcher Brian Krebs reported last month that the issue was in fact a "catastrophic" security breach, citing comments from a whistleblower involved in the situation. According to Krebs, the hack penetrated Ubiquiti's servers in Amazon's cloud, giving the intruders remote access and full source code control. "Such access could have allowed the intruders to remotely authenticate to countless Ubiquiti cloud-based devices around the world," he wrote.