Red Hat has confirmed suffering a potentially serious data breach, but the company said it was not able to verify hacker claims of stolen customer secrets.
A hacking group called Crimson Collective claims to have accessed Red Hat’s private GitHub repositories, and exfiltrated approximately 570GB of different files from 28,000 internal projects. Among the files were 800 Customer Engagement Records (CER) – internal consulting documents that Red Hat created to support enterprise clients, and typically include detailed infrastructure information (network architecture, system configuration, etc).
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