Vodafone investigates claims of a data breach made by Lapsus$ gang

Vodafone is investigating a recently suffered cyberattack, after a ransomware gang Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen its source code.

Vodafone announced to have launched an investigation after the Lapsus$ cybercrime group claimed to have stolen its source code.

The Lapsus$ gang claims to have stolen approximately 200 GB of source code files, allegedly contained in 5,000 GitHub repositories.

Early this week, the cybercrime group asked their subscribers in a poll on messaging app Telegram: “What should we leak next?” followed by three options:

Vodafone source code.
The source code and databases of Portuguese media corporation Impresa,
The source code for MercadoLibre and MercadoPago e-commerce companies.

The poll will end on March 13.

“We are investigating the claim together with law enforcement, and at this point we cannot comment on the credibility of the claim.” a Vodafone spokesperson told CNBC. “However, what we can say is that generally the types of repositories referenced in the claim contain proprietary source code and do not contain customer data.”

In February, Vodafone Portugal suffered a major cyberattack that caused service outages in the country, media reported the temporary disruption of 4G/5G communications and television services.

The Lapsus$ gang recently claimed to have stolen sensitive data from NVIDIA and Samsung.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Vodafone)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.