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The Washington Post said it was one of the victims of a hacking campaign linked to Oracle’s suite of enterprise software applications.
Reuters first I mentioned News on Friday, citing a statement from the newspaper in which it said it was affected by a “hack of the Oracle E-Business Suite platform.”
A spokesperson for The Post did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
When reached via email, Oracle spokesperson Michael Egbert referred TechCrunch to its site two Warnings Which I posted previously, and did not answer our questions.
Last month, Google said the Clop ransomware gang He was targeting companies After exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle’s E-Business Suite software, which companies use for their business operations, storing their HR files, and other sensitive data.
These vulnerabilities allowed hackers to steal customer business data and employee records from more than 100 companies, according to Google.
Hackers campaign It started in late September When company executives reported receiving blackmail messages sent from email addresses previously associated with the Klopp gang, claiming that hackers had stolen large amounts of sensitive internal business data and employee personal information from compromised Oracle systems.
Anti-ransomware firm Halcyon told TechCrunch at the time that the hackers demanded a $50 million ransom payment from an executive at one of the affected companies.
On Thursday, Club He claimed On its website, it says it hacked The Washington Post, claiming the company “ignored its security,” which is language the Klopp gang typically uses when a victim doesn’t pay hackers.
It is not uncommon for ransomware or extortion gangs like Clop to publish their victims’ names and stolen files as leverage, which may suggest that the victim did not negotiate payment with the gang, or that negotiations collapsed.
Several other organizations have confirmed that they were affected by the Oracle E-Business hacks, including… Harvard University and Envoy’s American Airlines.