Oracle Faces Mounting Criticism as It Notifies Customers of Hack

Oracle is sending out written notifications to customers over the recent hack after it initially appeared to completely deny a data breach.

Oracle has started sending out written notifications to customers regarding the recent cybersecurity incident, but faces mounting criticism over the way it handled the disclosure of the hack.

A hacker announced on a cybercrime forum on March 20 that they had hacked Oracle Cloud servers, offering to sell millions of records allegedly associated with over 140,000 tenants, including encrypted/hashed credentials.

Oracle rushed to categorically deny that there had been a breach of Oracle Cloud systems, making it appear as if it was completely denying getting hacked.

However, the hacker started leaking stolen information, which security firms assessed as likely being genuine, and some Oracle customers confirmed that their data was included in the leak.

As more evidence of a data breach affecting Oracle systems came to ...