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ShinyHunters Oracle PeopleSoft data theft and extortion campaign

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An active ShinyHunters data theft and extortion campaign is targeting Oracle PeopleSoft customers, with claims of stolen data from 300 instances across more than 100 organizations. The operation spans cloud and on-premises deployments and appears to use old and zero-day vulnerabilities plus credential-spray tooling to gain access. Defenders are being urged to check for the listed infrastructure and treat affected PeopleSoft environments as potentially compromised.

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H score42 First: 10.06.2026 21:31 Last: 10.06.2026 21:31 Sources 1

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ShinyHunters Salesforce Experience Cloud misconfiguration campaign

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H score51 First: 10.03.2026 12:00 Last: 10.03.2026 12:00 Sources 1

About this happening: ShinyHunters is running an **active** **Salesforce Experience Cloud** campaign that exploits overly permissive guest-user settings to harvest data from **hundreds of companies**,...

Latest development: 16.04.2026 13:35

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H score62 First: 24.01.2026 01:35 Last: 24.01.2026 01:35 Sources 1

About this happening: A **ShinyHunters**-linked extortion campaign is using **voice phishing** to target **Salesforce customers** and steal data for ransom, with the operation first surfacing in **May...

Latest development: 27.04.2026 17:43

ShinyHunters breached ADT after compromising an employee's Okta single sign-on (SSO) account in a vishing attack, then used that access to reach ADT's Salesforce instance and steal data. Have I Been Pwned said the exposed data affected 5.5 million people and included names, phone numbers, addresses, and in a small percentage of cases dates of birth and partial Social Security numbers or Tax IDs; the group later leaked an 11GB archive after extortion failed.

Timeline

  1. 10.06.2026 21:31 2 articles · 0h ago

    Oracle PeopleSoft customers receive ShinyHunters extortion demands

    Initial Disclosure

    Oracle PeopleSoft cloud and on-premises customer instances were identified as targets of widespread data theft attacks, and affected customers were receiving extortion demands signed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang.

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  2. 10.06.2026 21:31 1 articles · 0h ago

    ShinyHunters claims data theft from 300 Oracle PeopleSoft instances

    Attribution Update

    ShinyHunters confirmed it was behind the Oracle PeopleSoft attacks and claimed stolen data from 300 instances across more than 100 organizations, saying the operation used a gadget chain of old and zero-day vulnerabilities and that success varied by instance configuration.

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