ShinyHunters
Video service Vimeo confirms Anodot breach exposed user data
Vimeo has disclosed that data belonging to some of its customers and users has been accessed without authorization following the recent breach at the Anodot data anomaly detection company. The video platform says that the threat actor accessed email addresses for some of its customers, but most of the exposed information included technical data, video […]
Home security giant ADT data breach affects 5.5 million people
The ShinyHunters extortion group stole the personal information of 5.5 million individuals after breaching the systems of home security giant ADT earlier this month, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Founded in 1874 as American District Telegraph, ADT is the oldest and largest home security company in the United States, currently […]
Medtronic confirms breach after hackers claim 9 million records theft
Medical device giant Medtronic disclosed last week that hackers breached its network and accessed data in “certain corporate IT systems.” The confirmation comes after the infamous data extortion group ‘ShinyHunters’ claimed the intrusion and the theft of more than 9 million records from the company. Medtronic is an international medical equipment giant with 90,000 employees and operations […]
ADT confirms data breach after ShinyHunters leak threat
Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to leak stolen data unless a ransom is paid. In a statement shared today, the company said it detected unauthorized access to customer and prospective customer data on April 20, after which it terminated the intrusion and launched an investigation. […]
Vercel confirms breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data
Cloud development platform Vercel has disclosed a security incident after threat actors claimed to have breached its systems and are attempting to sell stolen data. Vercel is a cloud platform that provides hosting and deployment infrastructure for developers, with a strong focus on JavaScript frameworks. The company is known for developing Next.js, a widely used React […]
Data breach at edtech giant McGraw Hill affects 13.5 million accounts
The ShinyHunters extortion group has leaked data from 13.5 million McGraw Hill user accounts, stolen after breaching the company’s Salesforce environment earlier this month. Founded in 1909, McGraw Hill is a leading global educational publisher with annual revenue of $2.2 billion, which provides education content and solutions for PreK–12, higher education, and professional learning. The […]
McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat
Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to GeekFeed that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. The company assured that the breach did not affect its Salesforce accounts, customer databases, or internal systems, and that the amount of exposed data is limited and non-sensitive. “McGraw-Hill recently identified unauthorized access to […]
Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang
Rockstar Games has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang now leaking the stolen data on its data leak site. The threat actors claim the data was taken from Snowflake environments using authentication tokens stolen during a recent Anodot security incident. They have now published what […]
Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
Over a dozen companies have suffered data theft attacks after a SaaS integration provider was breached and authentication tokens stolen. While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, GeekFeed has learned that the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud data platform Snowflake. Snowflake confirmed “unusual activity” to GeekFeed, […]
Hims & Hers warns of data breach after Zendesk support ticket breach
Telehealth giant Hims & Hers Health is warning that it suffered a data breach after support tickets were stolen from a third-party customer service platform. Hims & Hers is an American telehealth company specializing in the direct-to-consumer healthcare space, providing subscription-based treatments for hair loss, ED, mental health, skincare, weight loss, and other conditions or […]