Following a breach last week, energy giant Halliburton has revealed that hackers “accessed and exfiltrated information” from its computers.
The oil and gas giant confirmed in a filing today to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that data was stolen in the attack linked to the RansomHub ransomware gang.
According to Halliburton’s disclosure to the securities authorities, the company learnt on August 21 that “an unauthorised third party gained access to certain of its systems,” and that the hack “has caused disruptions and limitation of access to portions of the Company’s business applications supporting aspects of the Company’s operations and corporate functions.”
Last week, Halliburton announced that it had taken some of its systems offline after discovering the hack.
Newsng understands that the business is “working to identify effects of the incident” on its continuing fracking and oil activities.
The corporation stated that the cyberattack is unlikely to have a “material impact” on its bottom line, despite incurring costs associated with incident response and operational disruptions.
As per the report, the company’s stock sank 3.8% in early trading, bringing its total loss to more than 6% over the last week.
With 49,000 employees and more than $23 billion in annual revenue, the Texas-based firm is one of the world’s top hydraulic fracturing — or fracking — operators, and it is one of a small number of oil and gas companies targeted by hackers in recent years.
“The Company believes the unauthorized third party accessed and exfiltrated information from the Company’s systems,” reads Halliburton’s latest 8-K Form filing to the SEC.
“The Company is evaluating the nature and scope of the information, and what notifications are required.”
We earlier reported that a former researcher at Apple and an ex-NSA hacker are creating a firm called “DoubleYou,” which intends to assist other cybersecurity product manufacturers in improving the security of Apple devices.
