ShinyHunters
ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data
Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. The company identified the attack on July 20 and immediately activated its incident response procedure to contain the breach. William Niles, CEO at Brinks Home, said that the company’s team was working with […]
Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare
Health-ISAC, a cybersecurity information-sharing organization for the health sector, is warning healthcare and medical technology organizations of an observed increase in successful attacks by ShinyHunters. ShinyHunters is an extortion gang that primarily conducts supply chain and identity attacks to breach cloud SaaS and storage platforms in data theft attacks, Over the past two years, the threat […]
Ernst & Young data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang
The ShinyHunters extortion gang has claimed responsibility for a recently disclosed Ernst & Young data breach, saying it obtained credentials for some of the company’s systems via a supply-chain attack. Ernst & Young disclosed the breach earlier this month, saying a third-party support ticket system used by its IT personnel was compromised and support tickets […]
ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam
Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after obtaining their email addresses from breached company databases. However, the messages appear to be sent […]
Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims
Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents after confirming unauthorized access to internal legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer Diagnostics business, while also investigating a separate claim that attackers breached its LabCentral portal and stole company data. The company confirmed the Cancer Diagnostics incident after the ShinyHunters extortion gang added Abbott to its […]
Medtronic notifies customers impacted by ShinyHunters data breach
Healthcare device firm Medtronic is notifying affected customers about a data breach that exposed their personal data to an unauthorized third party. The company previously confirmed that its IT systems were compromised by hackers, and the infamous data extortion group ‘ShinyHunters’ claimed the attack. The threat actor said that they were holding 9 million Medtronic records with […]
Nissan discloses employee data breach linked to Oracle zero-day attacks
Nissan is warning that it suffered a data breach affecting current and former employees after threat actors exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability in data theft attacks previously linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group. In breach notifications filed with the California Attorney General’s Office, Oracle says these data theft attacks impacted hundreds of companies and that […]
NAIC says public data stolen in ShinyHunters’ PeopleSoft breach
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) says the ShinyHunters extortion group stole only publicly available data, outdated logs, and configuration files after breaching its systems by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in an Oracle PeopleSoft server. NAIC is a U.S. insurance regulatory organization present in all 50 states. The organization identified on June 11 that […]
Kodak confirms data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang
Kodak has confirmed that it’s working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company’s data. Founded in 1880 as the Eastman Kodak Company and headquartered in Rochester, New York, Kodak has 79,000 worldwide patents and provides commercial print, advanced materials, and chemical products. A company […]
Council of Europe investigates ShinyHunters data breach claims
The Council of Europe, the continent’s oldest intergovernmental body, is probing claims of a data breach made by the ShinyHunters extortion group over the weekend. As Europe’s leading human rights organization, the Council represents 46 European member states and a population of over 700 million people, promoting democracy and the rule of law across Europe […]