- Lapsus$ hackers claim Adidas extranet hack
- However, Adidas says it was a third-party partner that was breached
- “A lot of technical data” was reportedly exposed in the hack
A group of cybercriminals claims to have broken into Adidas and stolen sensitive files, but it appears they only broke into a third-party partner company.
Members of the infamous Lapsus$ hacking collective recently posted a new thread on the BreachForums site, claiming to have infiltrated the Adidas extranet (a private network that still allows unauthorized access – in this case, third-party partners) and exfiltrated 815,000 rows of sensitive data.
The data, as per the post, 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 inquiries, Adidas said it was investigating the allegations and said it was looking into a breach at one of its partner companies.
“We have been made aware of a potential data protection incident at one of our independent licensing partners and distributors for martial arts products,” a spokesperson for Adidas said. The register.
“This is an independent company with its own IT systems.”
While the German sportswear giant did not want to discuss the date of the incident or the nature of the files captured, it stressed that there was “no indication” that the company’s IT infrastructure, its e-commerce platforms or any of its consumer data were affected by this attack.
Lapsus$ is currently one of the more active threat actors out there, sometimes operating independently and sometimes as part of a larger collective called the Scattered Lapsus Hunters.
The group was first discovered in late 2021 when it targeted the systems of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. It then made several high-profile breaches, including attacks on Microsoft, Nvidia and Samsung. It went dark in 2022, but resurfaced last year.
London police arrested seven people in the wake of the attacks but quickly released them – but have since arrested two more.
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