1.6 Million Likely Impacted by RingCentral Data Breach

The personal information of 1.6 million individuals appears to have been stolen from the widely used business communications platform RingCentral by a notorious extortion group.

The incident occurred in July and was the result of a “sophisticated social engineering campaign”, RingCentral said in a notice on its website.

“Upon detection, we promptly took steps to stop the unauthorized activity and immediately began an investigation with assistance from a leading third-party forensic firm. We have not seen any new unauthorized activity since taking these remediation efforts,” the company said.

According to RingCentral, only a limited portion of its customers was affected by the attack, and those individuals were notified directly.

“If you are not contacted by RingCentral, you are not affected. This incident did not impact the core RingCentral platform, and our services continue to operate without disruption,” it said.

While RingCentral did not name the attackers, the ShinyHuntersextortion group...

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