IT Firm Globant Confirms Breach after LAPSUS$ Leaks 70GB of Data

The LAPSUS$ data extortion gang announced their return on
Telegram after a week-long “vacation,” leaking what they claim is
data from software services company Globant.

“We are officially back from a vacation,” the group wrote on
their Telegram channel – which has nearly around 54,000 members as
of writing – posting images of extracted data and credentials
belonging to the company’s DevOps infrastructure.

The screenshots depict a folder listing for what appears to be
different companies from across the world, including Arcserve,
Banco Galicia, BNP Paribas Cardif, Citibanamex, DHL, Facebook,
Stifel, among others.

Also shared is a torrent file purported to contain around 70GB
of Globant’s source code as well as administrator passwords
associated with the firm’s Atlassian suite, including Confluence
and Jira, and the Crucible code review tool.

As malware research group VX-Underground^[1]
points out, the passwords are not only easily guessable, but they
have also been reused multiple times, prompting LAPSUS$ to call out
the “poor security practices in use” at the company.

When reached for a response, Globant confirmed the incident
stating it “recently detected that a limited section of our
company’s code repository has been subject to unauthorized access,”
adding it’s currently “conducting an exhaustive investigation” and
that it’s “taking strict measures to prevent further
incidents.”

“According to our current analysis, the information that was
accessed was limited to certain source code and project-related
documentation for a very limited number of clients,” the
Luxembourg-headquartered company stated^[2]. “To date, we have not
found any evidence that other areas of our infrastructure systems
or those of our clients were affected.”

The LAPSUS$ extortion group, since their emergence in December
2021, have been in the spotlight for their headline-grabbing hacks^[3]
on Impresa, NVIDIA, Samsung, Vodafone, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and
Okta.

The latest data heist arrives as The City of London Police said
it arrested and released^[4]
seven alleged operatives of the criminal cartel aged between 16 and
21 under investigation last week. But if the latest leak is any
indication, the law enforcement actions have not put a stop to
their operations.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, on March 21, added the
group to its “Most Wanted^[5]” list, seeking
information regarding the identities of the individuals responsible
for cyber intrusions targeting U.S.-based technology companies and
for disseminating the illegally obtained proprietary data.