Red Hat Breach: Crimson Collective Exfiltrates 570GB of Sensitive Data
A hacking group, the Crimson Collective, has allegedly breached Red Hat's private GitHub repositories, exfiltrating over 570GB of compressed data. The stolen information includes sensitive customer documents, raising alarm among Red Hat's enterprise users.
The incident involves a critical bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI platform, rated 9.9 in severity. This bug could allow a low-privilege user to escalate privileges and seize full control of a cluster's master nodes. The Crimson Collective claims to have used found authentication tokens to compromise downstream Red Hat customers, accessing more than 28,000 internal repositories.
The stolen data, spanning from 2020 to 2025, contains hundreds of Customer Engagement Reports (CERs). These reports include sensitive information such as architecture diagrams, configuration details, authentication tokens, and network maps. The affected organizations are major players in banking, telecoms, and government.
Red Hat is currently under scrutiny for the incident and has not yet responded to questions about the alleged breach or any extortion demands. The Crimson Collective, responsible for the distribution of filtered data material, has not been explicitly named in search results. The incident has highlighted the importance of robust cybersecurity measures for protecting sensitive customer data.
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