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10/8/25, 3:32 PM The Red Hat data breach is worse than first thought - BetaNews

instances belonging to the company having

been breached by the Crimson Collective,

hundreds of gigabytes of data were stolen.

Now the data breach has transformed into a

demand for ransom – perhaps predictably.

Interestingly, though, the extortion is not

being perpetrated by the Crimson Collective,

but by ShinyHunters.

As reported by Bleeping Computer,

ShinyHunters have now contacted Red Hat

and has leaked limited samples of stolen

customer engagement reports. The data

breach is now much more complicated than

anyone first thought. While Crimson

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