Telus Digital confirms breach after hacker claims 1 petabyte data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed to have stolen nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company in a multi-month breach.

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[-] runsmooth@kopitalk.net 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

In all, ShinyHunters claims to have stolen close to 1 petabyte of data belonging to the company and many of its customers, many of whom use Telus Digital as a BPO provider for customer support operations. BleepingComputer has not been able to independently confirm the total size of the stolen data.

The threat actor shared the names of 28 well-known companies allegedly impacted by the breach. However, BleepingComputer will not disclose the names of these companies, as we have been unable to independently confirm whether they were impacted.

The threat actor says that much of the data for these customers relates to BPO services provided by Telus Digital, including customer support and call center outsourcing, agent performance ratings, AI-powered customer support tools, fraud detection and prevention, and content moderation solutions.

I believe Telus also handles healthcare data for Alberta and beyond. Do we know if that's impacted?

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Parts of health data for BC and Alberta. Not an insignificant amount, but only a small view on BC HIPA data, not sure on AB, but I imagine the scope would be similar. They do have a relative stranglehold on home health mgmt software. Telus's relatively new foray into infosec has (rightfully) given health orgs pause in tendering and bids.

I know this because I carried out an app security audit for a BC health authority.