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Globalsign SSL Security Incident Report

GlobalSign have issued a statement regarding the alleged compromise reported in September.

In summary;

They did not find any evidence of:

  • Rogue Certificates issued.
  • Customer data exposed.
  • Compromised GlobalSign Root Certificate keys and associated Hardware Security Modules (HSM).
  • Compromised GlobalSign Certificate Authority (CA) infrastructure.
  • Compromised GlobalSign Issuing Authorities and associated HSMs.
  • Compromised GlobalSign Registration Authority (RA) services.

What did happen:

  • Peripheral web server, not part of the Certificate issuance infrastructure, hosting a public facing web property was breached.
  • What could have been exposed? Publicly available HTML pages, publicly available PDFs, the SSL Certificate and key issued to www.globalsign.com.
  • SSL Certificate and key for www.globalsign.com were deemed compromised and revoked.

The full report is available here.