TELUS Digital Pwned By Shiny Hunters

Bleeping Computer is reporting that the notorious hacking group ShinyHunters has pwned TELUS Digital which provides outsourced business services. The data that TELUS Digital likely has a lot of sensitive info in its possession, it would be a big target for threat actors. .

Here’s what TELUS Digital said:

“TELUS Digital is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to a limited number of our systems. Upon discovery, we took immediate steps to address the unauthorized activity and secure our systems against further intrusion. We are actively managing the situation and continue to monitor it closely,” Telus told BleepingComputer.

“All business operations within TELUS Digital remain fully operational, and there is no evidence of disruption to customer connectivity or services. As part of our response, we have engaged leading cyber forensics experts to support our investigation, and we are working with law enforcement. “

“We have implemented additional security measures to further safeguard our systems and environment. As our investigation progresses, we are notifying any impacted customers, as appropriate. The security of our customers’ information continues to be our highest priority.”

The thing is, today is March 13th. Bleeping Computer found out about this in January. And TELUS Digital didn’t respond to Bleeping Computer at that time. Read into that what you will. What worse is that ShinyHunters apparently demanded $65 million in ransom. TELUS clearly didn’t pay up, which by the way nobody should ever pay threat actors. So here we are talking about it.

Sucks to be TELUS Digital.

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