Topic: corporate victims

  • Red Hat Breach Worsens as ShinyHunters Demands Ransom

    Red Hat Breach Worsens as ShinyHunters Demands Ransom

    The ShinyHunters group is publicly extorting Red Hat after a breach exposed 570GB of data, including sensitive customer reports, and has threatened to release all data by October 10th if ransom demands are not met. ShinyHunters operates an Extortion-as-a-Service model, taking a 25–30% cut of rans...

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  • FBI Shuts Down BreachForums in Salesforce Extortion Case

    FBI Shuts Down BreachForums in Salesforce Extortion Case

    Federal authorities, in a joint U.S.-French operation, seized the BreachForums domain used by the ShinyHunters collective to extort businesses affected by Salesforce data theft, redirecting it to FBI-controlled infrastructure. The ShinyHunters group confirmed that law enforcement gained control o...

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  • Salesforce Customers Hit by Hackers in Data Extortion Attack

    Salesforce Customers Hit by Hackers in Data Extortion Attack

    A new hacking collective called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters is extorting Salesforce and its customers by stealing and threatening to release approximately one billion records from major organizations using the platform. The group, composed of members from Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters...

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