Security researchers revealed that enterprise routers purchased on eBay were chock-full of company data and could be a security risk for many institutions.
Security researchers have publicly revealed findings in a study that uncovered that more than half of the enterprise routers sold secondhand to online resellers, such as eBay, had not been factory reset and wiped of their data. This means the devices still contained sensitive company information from their previous owners when they were resold.
In particular, the researchers purchased 18 used routers from well-known brands including Cisco, Fortinet, and Juniper Networks. They ultimately discovered that nine of the devices were sold as is, and they offered easy access to all the router’s information. Meanwhile, five of the routers had been fully factory reset and wiped of all data. Two of the routers were encrypted, one was dead, and one was a mirror copy of another device, Wired noted.
Related Videos Eight of the unprotected routers included “router-to-router authentication keys” with “information about how the router connected to specific applications used by the previous owner.” Four routers included “credentials for connecting to the networks of other organizations, such as trusted partners, collaborators, or other third parties.
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