Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress (404media.co)
(Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:22PM (msmash)
from the security-woes dept.)
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- News link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/10/02/1538229/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress
- Source link: https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28-000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress/
A hacking group claims to have pulled data from a GitLab instance connected to Red Hat's consulting business, [1]scooping up 570 GB of compressed data from 28,000 customers . From a report:
> The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. "Red Hat is aware of reports regarding a security incident related to our consulting business and we have initiated necessary remediation steps," Stephanie Wonderlick, Red Hat's VP of communications told 404 Media.
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> A file released by the hackers and viewed by 404 Media suggested that the hacking group may have acquired some data related to about 800 clients, including Vodafone, T-Mobile, the US Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, the Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Walmart.
[1] https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28-000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress/
> The hack was first reported by BleepingComputer and has been confirmed by Red Hat itself. "Red Hat is aware of reports regarding a security incident related to our consulting business and we have initiated necessary remediation steps," Stephanie Wonderlick, Red Hat's VP of communications told 404 Media.
>
> A file released by the hackers and viewed by 404 Media suggested that the hacking group may have acquired some data related to about 800 clients, including Vodafone, T-Mobile, the US Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center, the Federal Aviation Administration, Bank of America, AT&T, the U.S. House of Representatives, and Walmart.
[1] https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacting-as-many-as-28-000-customers-including-the-navy-and-congress/
Shielded Names (Score:2)
by darkain ( 749283 )
Oh, so THATS why IBM purchased RedHat, so that way they have an alternate name to scapegoat and not impact their own reputation or stock value!
S/B IBM's Stripped Red Hat Unit Asleep (Score:2)
by postbigbang ( 761081 )
How does that size, that weight of merch go out the door?
What wall were they using, Silly Putty (pun intended).
WTLF, RH? Have you no shame, no regard for your clientele's asset value? Who's getting sacked? Indicted?
Oh. It was AI.
Carry on.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM (Score:2)
by AndyCater ( 726464 )
... well, maybe they will now. Just a matter of time for big corporate / Government distribution to get clobbered - and just after they got rid of a whole load of capable techies and developers. This Red Hat is not the old Red Hat - and it shows.
"Crimson Collective" (Score:2)
by eneville ( 745111 )
> Crimson Collective
Pardon me for pointing out the obvious, but that sounds like a group name specific for this.
Well, Red Crap it is... (Score:2)
Although that was clear to me the forst time I looked at their joke of a Linux distro.
Re:Red Hat was great (Score:3)
Red Hat was great until around 1997 or 1998 or so. Their primary advantage was the easy installer.
Re: (Score:1)
For ease of install and use, Corel Linux was much better. But so very short lived.
Re: (Score:2)
Probably. I got my first look around 2010 and they were not great then.
Re: (Score:1)
Red Hat was great right up until they hired leadership that didn't care about F/OSS and was more interested in making the company something another company (IBM) would want to buy. I was there for 10 years and saw the slow loss of that underlying spirit during that time...
Re: (Score:2)
> Red Hat was great right up until they hired leadership that didn't care about F/OSS and was more interested in making the company something another company (IBM) would want to buy. I was there for 10 years and saw the slow loss of that underlying spirit during that time...
When do you date that? As a former customer I date the rot from just before the time that they changed from Red Hat Linux to RHEL. There was definitively value in working with them for a long time after, however once you stop caring about the small individual desktop, you are no longer improving the working environment of the developers that are writing Linux and you are doomed. Forcing everyone onto Fedora and off their main product meant it was no longer part of the community.