Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters
2026-03-16T07:24:05Z•f63a345cae979f40aa8b4569d8e7d67438d23a86c3c88af8a75d7c37e091cf0e
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What happened
A wave of high-impact incidents and active exploit activity was reported across multiple sectors. Highlights include Telus Digital admitting a breach with ShinyHunters claiming large-scale customer data theft, Storm-2561 distributing spoofed enterprise VPN clients to harvest credentials, an actively exploited max-severity RCE in n8n confirmed by CISA, and Google pushing emergency Chrome fixes for multiple zero-days already under attack. Additional notable items: a critical Microsoft Excel bug enabling zero-click information disclosure via Copilot Agent, ShinyHunters’ claimed Salesforce data he
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- theregister_security
- Record identifier
- f63a345cae979f40aa8b4569d8e7d67438d23a86c3c88af8a75d7c37e091cf0e
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-16T07:24:05Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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