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10/8/25, 3:32 PM Red Hat leak escalates: ShinyHunters demands money after GitLab breach - Techzine Global
Red Hat leak escalates: ShinyHunters demands money
after GitLab breach
Mels DeesOct 7, 2025, 4:14 PM GMT+4October 7, 2025 2:14 pm
The cyberattack on software company Red Hat has taken a new turn, with the hacker group ShinyHunters
now joining the extortion attempt. The criminals published examples of stolen customer data on their own data
breach platform. This seems to escalate the incident further.
The attack was initially claimed by a group known as the Crimson Collective. They claimed to have stolen nearly 570
gigabytes of internal data from some 28,000 development repositories. According to the attackers, the loot also
includes hundreds of so-called Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which contain confidential information about
customers’ infrastructure and systems. When Red Hat did not respond to their extortion attempt, the criminals sought
cooperation with other groups.
Reports from BleepingComputer indicate that Crimson Collective and Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters are collaborating
and utilizing the ShinyHunters data leak site to exert pressure on Red Hat. In messages on Telegram, the hackers
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