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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60717930

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 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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?

[-] brax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

I was wondering the same. It's Telus Health that deals with that crap, not sure if that's separate from Telus Digital.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 15 points 15 hours ago

How do you not notice a petabyte of surprise egress?

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

What I want to know is where the fuck the hackers put a petabyte of stolen data.

[-] Geologist@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

I’ve worked with a ton of rack storage servers that handle like 45 disks. Even using older tech like 12-16TB drives you can get half a petabyte of usable space on one server even with raid array redundancies, etc.

Before the stupid AI hardware craze, these old enterprise servers were super cheap too, the main cost of running them was the power lol.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

I know, but that's still some serious hardware. Suggests state level backing or similar.

[-] lauha@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

If you don't monitor anything

[-] Sunshine@piefed.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

Telus Stock: I'm in trouble!

[-] maplesaga@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

That's the good part about government granted monopolies. What can happen?

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