I hadn't heard of Snowflake before today (the cloud-based enterprise data store), but it sounds like (relating to the AT&T phone/SMS record hack) yet another case of enterprises offloading services that should really be hosted in-house (even if using 3rd party software).
A huge centralization of customer data that led to the Ticketmaster, Santander, AT&T, etc. breaches https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/hackers-steal-significant-volume-of-data-from-hundreds-of-snowflake-customers/
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