Security News > 2021 > July > Saudi Aramco data breach sees 1 TB stolen data for sale
Attackers have stolen 1 TB of proprietary data belonging to Saudi Aramco and are offering it for sale on the darknet.
Saudi Aramco has pinned this data incident on third-party contractors and tells BleepingComputer that the incident had no impact on Aramco's operations.
This month, a threat actor group known as ZeroX is offering 1 TB of proprietary data belonging to Saudi Aramco for sale.
The group says that the 1 TB dump includes documents pertaining to Saudi Aramco's refineries located in multiple Saudi Arabian cities, including Yanbu, Jazan, Jeddah, Ras Tanura, Riyadh, and Dhahran.
The threat actors did try to contact Saudi Aramco to inform them of the breach but did not hear back and did not attempt extortion after gaining access to their networks, which further casts doubts on the purpose of the timer shown above.
In 2012, a prominent data breach against Saudi Aramco's systems wiped over 30,000 computer hard drives clean.
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