Snowflake

The customer of records of almost 110 million people have been stolen - and it's claimed that a familiar name may be at the centre of the story

“At least 79.7% of the accounts leveraged by the threat actor in this campaign had prior credential exposure

"This appears to be a targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication"

"The user must be left in the disabled state for 6 hours to fully invalidate any possible unauthorized access via this ID token feature."

“We have staggering amounts of data. And we have the same problem as everyone else. It's all siloed: we need it in one place…”

Customers will be able to run containerised applications inside Snowflake, with the company provisioning Kubernetes clusters. "We want to make Snowflake the iPhone for data applications" says co-founder Benoit Dageville.

Improved Apache Iceberg integrations (managed and unmanaged); support for containerised applications as a managed service inside Snowflake (hello, Kubernetes) and more...

Snowflake wants to be a natural home for your applications as well as data. But from unstructured data to Python integrations, challenges remain.

The German bank is working to incorporate acquisition Contis' tech.