Is Oracle dealing with an alleged cyberattack for the second time in a short period? Hackers are said to have made off with customer login credentials.
The only source confirming the cyberattack so far is Bloomberg. Bloomberg was informed of the incident by two of its sources at the cloud provider. It’s the second time in a few weeks that Oracle has been linked to a cyberattack on its systems.
Oracle reportedly informed affected customers this week that hackers had breached a legacy server, Bloomberg writes. It’s said to be an old server that hasn’t been in use for eight years and mainly contains older customer data. According to Oracle, there’s little reason for customers to panic, although Bloomberg writes that login credentials could be as recent as last year.
No further information is available at this time. Oracle is not communicating for now. CrowdStrike is reportedly involved in the investigation as an external security partner but refers the media to the cloud provider for further comment.
Hack or No Hack?
This is the second time in a short period that Oracle is facing an alleged cyberattack, and with the previous incident, it’s still unclear what exactly happened and if there’s a link between the two incidents. Last week, a database containing millions of data records of Oracle customers appeared on the dark web.
However, Oracle firmly denied that a breach had occurred. The alleged perpetrator threatens to make public the names of customers from the database if they don’t pay.