Lapsus$ extortion gang claims to have hacked IT Giant Globant

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have hacked IT giant Globant and leaked tens of gigabytes of stolen data.

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have hacked IT giant Globant and leaked roughly 70 Gb of stolen data. The gang claims that the company has implemented poor security practices that allowed them to hack their infrastructure.

“For anyone who is interested about the poor security practices in use at Globant.com. i will expose the admin credentials for ALL there devops platforms below.” reads the message published on the Telegram Channel of the group.

According to the gang, the stolen data includes customer source code and published a list of credentials to access source code sharing platforms used by the company, including GitHub, Jira, Crucible and Confluence.

The hack of Globant comes a few days the City of London Police announced to have arrested seven teenagers suspected of being members of the notorious Lapsus$ extortion gang, which is believed to be based in South America. UK police suspect that a 16-year-old from Oxford is one of the leaders of the popular Lapsus$ extortion group.

Over the last months, the Lapsus$ gang compromised many prominent companies such as NVIDIA , Samsung , Ubisoft, Mercado Libre, Vodafone. Last week, the group announced the hack of Microsoft and Okta.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Lapsus$)

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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”.