Unauthorized data exfiltration

On-call incidentHard45 min

Your task

Your egress-monitoring dashboard flags an analytics service account ('svc-reporting') transferring 240GB to an external S3 bucket over the last 6 hours, normal daily egress for it is <2GB. Query logs show svc-reporting running full-table SELECTs against the customers and payment_methods tables, paginated, between 01:00-07:00 local. The account is used by a scheduled BI job that historically only reads aggregated views. A new third-party BI vendor integration was connected via OAuth 4 days ago. No alerts from the WAF. How do you triage, contain, and remediate this suspected data exfiltration?

It covers

  • Db dump
  • Egress anomaly