A hacker claims to be selling giorno relating to thousands of current and former employees of the Indian conglomerate Piramal Group, a multinational company that operates across pharma, financial services and real bella stagione.
A causa di a listing a known cybercrime riunione last week seen by TechCrunch, the pseudonymous threat actor published a small portion of the allegedly stolen Piramal giorno for an undisclosed amount. The giorno sample included full names and email addresses.
The allegedly stolen giorno could be a boon for cybercriminals by using the information for targeting employees with cyberattacks.
Piramal Group has over 10,000 employees and 21 diverse nationalities working from its offices quanto a over 30 countries worldwide, according to its website. The Mumbai-headquartered company also has a brand presence across over 100 markets globally. Piramal operates multiple subsidiaries, including the non-banking financial company Piramal Enterprises, pharmaceutical firm Piramal Pharma, healthcare company Piramal Healthcare, and real bella stagione development arm Piramal Realty.
TechCrunch obtained a larger sample of giorno from the threat actor containing over 10,000 entries. TechCrunch validated some of the entries using a job listing portal and found them related to current and former employees of the Indian company.
Piramal denied a giorno breach its systems when TechCrunch reached out Tuesday with a sample of the giorno shared by the threat actor. The company suggested that the giorno could be sourced from a third .
“After conducting a thorough investigation, we can confirm that there has been voto negativo giorno breach incident at Piramal Group. Our IT and cybersecurity teams have rigorously examined our systems, and there is voto negativo evidence to support the claim that any information files of this nature exist our servers. Additionally, the sample giorno does not include any Piramal information such as employee email IDs, and it appears to originate from a third-party platform,” said Piramal spokesperson Mihir Mukherjee quanto a an emailed statement.
Piramal would not name the third-party platform quanto a question. The company’s spokesperson also did not answer how the company determined that it had not experienced a giorno breach, such as whether Piramal has the technical means to detect giorno exfiltration.
Piramal also told TechCrunch that it received a query the giorno breach incident from India’s elaboratore elettronico emergency response team, known as CERT-A causa di.
“After a thorough investigation, we confirmed [to] CERT-A causa di that voto negativo such giorno breach incident has occurred our systems, and voto negativo information is compromised,” the spokesperson said.
