- Lapsus$ hackers claim to have hacked Adidas extranet
- However, Adidas says it was an external partner that was breached.
- ‘Lots of technical data’ reportedly exposed in hack
A group of cybercriminals claims to have broken into Adidas and stolen confidential files, but it appears they only broke into an external partner company.
Members of the infamous Lapsus$ hacking collective recently posted a new thread on the BreachForums site claiming to have infiltrated Adidas’ extranet (a private network that still allows access to outsiders, in this case, external partners) and exfiltrated 815,000 rows of sensitive data.
The data, according to the publication, included people’s full names, emails, passwords, dates of birth, company and “a lot of technical data.”
Who was to blame?
In response to media questions, Adidas said it was investigating the allegations and was investigating a breach at one of its partner companies.
“We have been informed of a possible data protection incident at one of our independent licensing partners and distributor of martial arts products,” an Adidas spokesperson said. The Registry.
“It is an independent company with its own computer systems.”
While the German sportswear giant declined to discuss the date of the incident or the nature of the captured files, it did emphasize that there was “no indication” that the company’s IT infrastructure, its e-commerce platforms, or any of its consumer data had been affected by this attack.
Lapsus$ is currently one of the most active threat actors out there, sometimes operating independently and other times as part of a larger collective called Scattered Lapsus Hunters.
The group was first detected in late 2021, when it targeted the systems of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. After that, it committed several high-profile breaches, including attacks on Microsoft, Nvidia, and Samsung. It stopped working in 2022, but resurfaced last year.
London police arrested seven people after the attacks but quickly released them, but have since re-arrested two more.
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