Vulnerabilities in Mega cloud service

A team of cryptographers at ETH Zurich conducted extensive testing on the New Zealand-based cloud platform Mega. In doing so, they discovered security holes that would allow the provider to decrypt and manipulate customer data. -Mega - The most trusted, best-protected cloud storage this is how New Zealand-based cloud provider Mega advertises its services. Like many other providers of cloud solutions, Mega also promises that not even the company itself can view or manipulate any data saved by customers. This mostly isn-t about whether customers trust the providers themselves but about the fact that large IT platforms like Mega - who have millions of customers and billions of saved files - become targets for actors such as security services, governments or people with criminal intent. -When talking about cloud providers, you can never rule out that their systems are compromised,- says Professor Kenneth Paterson. -It's also a regular occurence for providers to work with governmental organisations.