Researchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of Mega Cloud Storage Service

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Researchers Uncover Ways to Break the Encryption of ‘MEGA’ Cloud Storage Service

A new piece of research from academics at ETH Zurich has identified a number of critical security issues in the MEGA cloud storage service that could be leveraged to break the confidentiality and integrity of user data.

In a paper titled “MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry, the researchers point out how MEGA’s system does not protect its users against a malicious server, thereby enabling a rogue actor to fully compromise the privacy of the uploaded files.