- Idealab confirms that it suffered a data violation, offers identity theft protection and credit monitoring
- Ransomware operators recently distributed Hunters International assumed responsibility
- The deciphered key was published recently
The Idealab technology start incubator has confirmed suffered a cyber attack in which he lost confidential archives of the company.
The organization confirmed the news after an extensive investigation that took almost a year, pointing out in a letter of violation of data previously sent to the affected persons that the attack probably took place on October 4, 2024, when the cybercriminals agreed to their network and stole confidential information about the current and previous employees, the current and previous service contractors and their dependents.
We do not know exactly how many people were affected by this attack, or what is the nature of the data. Idealab has just said that the attackers took people’s names, in combination with “variable data.”
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Even so, it offers the affected persons of courtesy identity theft protection services through IDX, which includes 24 months of credit and dark web monitoring, a policy of reimbursement of identity fraud loss of $ 1 million and fully administered identity robbery recovery services.
At the same time, the media reported that a ransomware operation known as Hunters International assumed the responsibility of the attack, adding stolen data to its escape site, probably after an attempt at failed extortion.
Supposedly, the filtered file was 262.8 GB of size and contained 137,000 files. Interestingly, today, Hunters International announced that he was dissolving, he apologized for the inconveniences caused and shared keys to deciphered for all his victims. It is also safe to assume that Idealab is included in this list.
The reason behind the closure remains in the mastery of speculation, with multiple security outfits believing that the group was simply a brand change to hide its police tracks and reduce ties with previous affiliates.
Future, Group-IB researchers and many other registered have indicated that Hunters International recently launched a parallel operation called World Leaks, which does not implement encrypters and simply focuses on extortion.
Through Bleepingcomputer
