Oracle is reportedly trying to downplay the impact of the attack while quietly acknowledging to clients that some of its cloud services have been compromised.
A hacker dubbed online as ‘rose87168’ recently offered to sell millions of lines of data reportedly associated with over 140,000 Oracle Cloud tenants, including encrypted credentials. The hacker initially intended to extort a $20 million ransom from Oracle, but eventually offered to sell the data to anyone or swap it for zero-day vulnerabilities.
The malicious actor has been sharing a variety of materials to support their claims, such as a sample of 10,000 customer data records, a link to a file demonstrating access to Oracle cloud systems, user credentials, and a long video that seems to have been recorded during an internal Oracle meeting.
However, Oracle categorically denied an Oracle Cloud hack after the hacker’s claims surfaced, stating, “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.”