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The Everest ransomware group says it has stolen personal and client data, but the leak volume is on the small side.
Direct marketing giant Mailchimp has been listed as the victim of a ransomware attack on the darknet leak site of the Everest hacking group.
Everest posted details of the alleged attack on 31 July, claiming to have stolen a modest 767 megabytes of data.
That data, however, consists of 943,536 lines of information
“The leak of your internal company documents contains a huge variety of personal documents and information of clients,” Everest said in its leak post.
The hackers included two screenshots of the data, which appear to have been exported from a customer relationship management platform. The data contains company domain names and emails, location information, phone numbers, links to social media, and GDPR labels. The information also includes the tech stack details of several companies, including Amazon, PayPal, and Shopify.
Everest has not listed any ransom demand or deadline, and Mailchimp is one of four victims listed on the same day.
Everest ransomware is a Russian-linked group that was first observed in 2020. While it started as a data-theft-only corporate extortion operation, it soon migrated to ransomware and encryption. It has claimed a total of 238 victims, with its most recent Australian victim being applied behavioural science firm Evidn, which was hacked earlier this year.
The gang was also behind cyber attacks against Coca-Cola’s bottling partner in the Middle East in May and South African healthcare giant Mediclinic.
Mailchimp offers a raft of email marketing and content creation services and has over 14 million users. Mailchimp’s corporate customers include clothing brand The North Face, video service Vimeo, and New Belgium Brewing.
Cyber Daily has reached out to Mailchimp for comment.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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