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European Commission Confirms Cloud Infrastructure Breach

🔐The European Commission has confirmed a cyber-attack affecting cloud infrastructure that hosts the Europa.eu platform and says early findings indicate data were taken. The incident was detected on March 24 and announced on March 27; containment and forensic measures were deployed while internal systems reportedly remained unaffected. Screenshots and claims from ShinyHunters allege a roughly 350GB haul including mail servers, databases, NextCloud content and employee PII, and researchers warn the compromise could expose DKIM keys, SSO directories and other sensitive assets.
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European Commission Confirms Data Breach at Europa.eu Hack

🔒 The European Commission has confirmed a data breach after its Europa.eu web platform was compromised in an attack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion group. The intruders reportedly accessed at least one AWS account and exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes, though the Commission says its internal systems were not affected. Authorities have been notified and an investigation is ongoing to determine the full impact.
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Telus Digital Suffers Massive Data Breach by ShinyHunters

🔒 Telus Digital, a BPO provider to global clients, is investigating a significant cybersecurity incident after extortion group ShinyHunters claimed to have exfiltrated up to one petabyte of data. The company says core operations and customer connectivity remain unaffected and that it has engaged leading forensics teams and law enforcement. Early indications point to abuse of legitimate access rather than an obvious malware intrusion, and Telus is notifying affected customers and implementing additional safeguards.
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Telus Digital Confirms Breach After Massive Data Theft

🔒 Telus Digital has confirmed a cybersecurity incident after threat actors identifying as ShinyHunters claimed to have exfiltrated nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company's BPO systems over several months. The attackers say they used Google Cloud credentials found in the Salesloft/Drift breach to access a large BigQuery instance and then used trufflehog to locate additional secrets and pivot to other systems. Telus says it discovered unauthorized access to a limited number of systems, engaged forensic experts, is investigating what was stolen and which customers were affected, and reports no evidence of customer connectivity or service disruption.
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Overly Permissive Guest Settings Threaten Salesforce Data

⚠️ Salesforce is urging customers to review Experience Cloud guest configurations after a reported campaign tied to the cybercrime group ShinyHunters that claims breaches of hundreds of organizations. Attackers are exploiting overly permissive guest user settings and a modified version of the open-source Aura Inspector to scan the /s/sfsites/aura endpoint and extract data. Salesforce recommends auditing guest profiles, disabling public API access for guest users, restricting object visibility, and enforcing least-privilege.
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ShinyHunters Claims Ongoing Salesforce Aura Data Theft

🔒 Salesforce warns customers that attackers are targeting misconfigured Experience Cloud sites by abusing the /s/sfsites/aura API, allowing guest users to access more data than intended. Threat actors have used a modified AuraInspector scanner and bespoke exfiltration tools; the extortion group ShinyHunters claims responsibility and reports hundreds of compromises. Salesforce stresses this stems from customer guest‑user settings, not a platform vulnerability, and provides immediate mitigation guidance.
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Wynn Resorts Confirms Employee Data Breach After Extortion

🔒 Wynn Resorts confirmed an employee data breach after being listed on the ShinyHunters extortion group's leak site and said it activated incident response procedures. The company engaged external cybersecurity experts to investigate and reported that an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee data. Attackers claimed the stolen data had been deleted; Wynn said it has seen no evidence of publication or misuse to date and that guest operations remain unaffected. The company is offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection services to employees.
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CarGurus Data Leak Exposes 12.4 Million Account Records

🔓 The extortion group ShinyHunters published a 6.1GB archive on February 21 containing 12.4 million records it alleges were stolen from CarGurus. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) has added the dataset and reports compromised data types including email addresses, IPs, full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, account IDs, finance application data, dealer details, and subscription information. CarGurus has not confirmed the breach or replied to requests for comment. HIBP says about 70% of the records were already known, leaving roughly 3.7 million newly exposed entries that could be abused for phishing and other scams.
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ShinyHunters Claims Breach of Dutch Telecom Odido

🔒 The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it stole millions of user records from Dutch telecom Odido, adding the company to its dark‑web leak site and asserting nearly 21 million records were taken. Odido disclosed the incident on February 12, reporting that attackers accessed its customer contact system on February 7 and that exposed fields vary by customer. The carrier said no Mijn Odido passwords, call records, location data, billing data, or identity scans were exposed; ShinyHunters, however, alleges internal corporate data and plaintext passwords were also taken. Odido reported the breach to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, blocked the attackers' access, and engaged external cybersecurity specialists while investigations continue.
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Data Breach at Fintech Figure Exposes Nearly 1 Million

🔒 Figure Technology Solutions confirmed a social engineering breach that exposed personal and contact data for 967,200 accounts. Notification service Have I Been Pwned reported files posted in February 2026 containing unique emails, names, phone numbers, physical addresses and dates of birth dating back to January 2026. The extortion group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and posted roughly 2.5 GB of alleged loan applicant data.
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Canada Goose Investigates After 600K Customer Records Leak

🔍 Canada Goose is investigating after data extortion group ShinyHunters published an archive claiming more than 600,000 customer records tied to past transactions. The 1.67 GB JSON dataset reportedly contains names, emails, phone numbers, billing and shipping addresses, IPs, order histories, and partial payment card data (brands, BINs, last four digits). Canada Goose says it has found no evidence of a breach of its own systems and that no unmasked financial data appears present, while it reviews the dataset to verify accuracy and scope.
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Scattered Lapsus Shiny Hunters: Extortion Tactics Exposed

🔒 A prolific English-language extortion gang calling itself Scattered Lapsus Shiny Hunters (SLSH) combines data theft with coordinated harassment — swatting, DDoS, and call- and email-flooding — to pressure victims into paying. Allison Nixon of Unit 221B and forensic analysis from Mandiant trace recent incidents to early–mid January 2026, when attackers used phone-based phishing to harvest SSO and MFA codes. Nixon warns SLSH is fractious and untrustworthy, and advises organizations that negotiating beyond a firm refusal generally escalates harm and provides attackers information useful for later fraud.
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Panera Bread breach affects 5.1M accounts, not 14M customers

🔒 Have I Been Pwned reports that a January 2026 data breach at Panera Bread exposed roughly 5.1 million unique email addresses and associated contact information, rather than 14 million distinct customers as initially claimed. The files, totaling about 760 MB, were published by the ShinyHunters extortion group after an alleged failed ransom attempt. ShinyHunters says it gained access via a Microsoft Entra SSO code as part of a broader vishing campaign targeting SSO providers. Panera has confirmed the incident to authorities and said the data is contact information.
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Mandiant: ShinyHunters Exploit SSO and Vishing Campaigns

🔒 Mandiant reports a recent wave of ShinyHunters attacks that combine targeted vishing and company‑branded phishing sites to capture SSO credentials and MFA codes. Attackers impersonate IT or helpdesk staff, guide victims through MFA approval or one‑time passcodes in real time, and enroll attacker-controlled MFA devices. With access to Okta, Microsoft Entra, or Google SSO dashboards they pivot into SaaS platforms (Salesforce, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, DocuSign, Slack, Atlassian, Dropbox, Google Drive) to steal and extort cloud data.
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Mandiant: Vishing Campaign Steals MFA to Breach SaaS

📞 Google-owned Mandiant reported an expansion of ShinyHunters-style extortion activity that combines advanced voice phishing with fake credential-harvesting sites to capture SSO credentials and MFA codes to access cloud SaaS environments. The team is tracking multiple clusters (UNC6661, UNC6671, UNC6240) and observed attackers impersonating IT staff, registering attacker-controlled MFA devices, and exfiltrating data from services such as SharePoint and OneDrive. Mandiant recommends strengthening help-desk verification, improving logging and detection, restricting weak authentication methods, and adopting phishing-resistant options like FIDO2 or passkeys.
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Defending Against ShinyHunters Branded SaaS Extortion

🔐 Mandiant is tracking a notable expansion of ShinyHunters-branded extortion campaigns that use evolved vishing and victim-branded credential harvesting to compromise SSO credentials and enroll unauthorized devices into corporate MFA. These intrusions exploit social engineering — not product vulnerabilities — to pivot into cloud SaaS environments and perform bulk exports and administrative abuse. The post provides prioritized containment, hardening, logging, and detection guidance, and urges adoption of phishing-resistant MFA such as FIDO2 security keys and passkeys.
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ShinyHunters Expansion Targets SaaS Identity and Data

🔎 Mandiant and Google GTIG observed an expansion of ShinyHunters-style campaigns using sophisticated vishing and victim-branded credential harvesting sites to steal SSO credentials and MFA codes. Compromised accounts were used to access a broadening set of cloud SaaS applications to locate confidential documents and PII for extortion. Activity attributed to clusters UNC6661, UNC6671, and UNC6240 includes harassment, DDoS, and Limewire-hosted proof samples. Organizations should adopt phishing-resistant MFA such as FIDO2 or passkeys and follow published hardening and detection guidance.
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ShinyHunters Launch Vishing Campaign Targeting 100s

📞 Notorious extortion group ShinyHunters released tens of gigabytes of files it claims were stolen from dating services including Hinge, Match, OkCupid and Bumble. Researchers link the disclosures to a broader campaign that combines automated phishing kits with voice-based social engineering to capture credentials and MFA tokens in real time. Security firm Silent Push detected a 'Live Phishing Panel' and infrastructure consistent with SLSH activity targeting more than 100 high-value organizations. Organizations are advised to verify IT support calls through official out-of-band channels and audit OSS logs for suspicious device enrollments and new-IP logins.
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Match Group Breach Exposes Data from Multiple Dating Apps

🔒Match Group confirmed a security incident after the ShinyHunters group leaked 1.7 GB of compressed files allegedly containing about 10 million records from Hinge, Match, and OkCupid, along with internal documents. The company says it terminated unauthorized access, is working with external experts, and believes a limited amount of user data was exposed with no indication that login credentials, financial information, or private communications were accessed. Match Group is notifying affected individuals as appropriate and continuing its investigation.
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Have I Been Pwned: SoundCloud breach affects 29.8M

🔒 SoundCloud confirmed unauthorized activity in December 2025 after users reported 403 errors and the company said it had activated incident response procedures; it indicated no passwords or financial data were accessed. Have I Been Pwned later disclosed the incident impacted 29.8 million accounts, exposing email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower/following counts and, in some cases, country. Sources and updates attribute the intrusion to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which attempted to extort SoundCloud and used email flooding to harass users, employees, and partners.
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