It did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.
The Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p, which has claimed credit for the MOVEit hack, earlier said in a statement that it would not exploit any data taken from government agencies, and that it had erased all such data.
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The hackers took advantage of a security flaw that its maker, Progress Software (PRGS.O), discovered late last month. The new victims add to a growing list of entities in the U.S., Britain and other countries whose systems were infiltrated through the MOVEit Transfer software. The latter is a nonprofit that collaborates with the university and runs six hospitals and primary care centers. Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used file-transfer software, officials said on Thursday.ĭata was "compromised" at two entities within the energy department when hackers gained access through a security flaw in MOVEit Transfer, the department said in a statement.Ī DOE official said those entities were the DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defense-related nuclear waste.īritish energy giant Shell (SHEL.L), the University System of Georgia, the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System were also hit, all three groups said in separate statements.
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