expresspros.com breached by Chaos ransomware gang
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Express Pros suffered data breach with 9571 compromised user accounts and employee credentials exposed by Chaos ransomware operators.
expresspros.com, an employment staffing services provider, has been breached and added to the Chaos ransomware gang's leak site. The breach resulted in the compromise of 7 employees and 9,571 user accounts, along with 24 third-party employee credentials. The attacker also identified 102 points on the victim's external attack surface and extracted DNS records from the domain. The data has been publicly posted by the ransomware operators on their leak site, indicating exfiltration as part of a likely double-extortion ransom campaign. The breach highlights the organization's exposure through both direct employee access and third-party credential compromise, suggesting a possible initial access vector through credential theft or supply-chain connections.
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Source reporting: https://www.ransomware.live/id/ZXhwcmVzc3Byb3MuY29tQGNoYW9z
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