- HPE begins to notify those affected by 2023 Midnight Blizzard -Attack
- So far at least a dozen people have received their violation of review of letters
- We don’t know exactly how many people were affected
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has started Techcrunch Reporting of the company has notified at least one dozen individuals so far with reference to a review of infringement notices submitted to two US State Attorney General.
HPE reported Russian state-sponsored threat players known as Midnight Blizzard violated its IT systems in 2023 and stole sensitive data from his employees’ email inbox. In an 8-k submission that was filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) at that time, the company said the attack started in mid-May 2023 and that it discovered it on December 12.
The study revealed that Midnight Blizzard (also known as Cosy Bear or Nobelium) had access to “a small percentage” of HPE’s cloud-based email inbox. Newer reports claim that Crooks also took social security number, driver’s license information and credit card numbers.
No significant influence
HPE said attackers used “a compromised account to access internal HPE -E -Mail boxes in our Office 365 -e -Mail environment.” Later, the company clarified the mailboxes belonging to HPE employees in cyber security, go-to-market and business departments.
The exact number of compromised individuals is unknown. The company told TechCrunch that the data was “limited to information contained in users’ mailboxes”, which suggests a relatively small number.
That said, HPE does not think the attack will have a significant impact on the business or that it will interfere with its activities.
“When we had taken such actions, we decided that such an activity did not significantly influence the company,” HPE said in the archiving. “From the date of this filing, the incident has not had a significant impact on the company’s activities, and the company has not decided that the incident will reasonably affect the company’s financial conditions or operating results.”
