Oracle tells customers its public cloud was compromised

Oracle has briefed some customers about a successful intrusion into its public cloud, as well as the theft of their data, after previously denying it had been compromised.

Claims of a cyberattack on Oracle’s cloud service emerged in late March when a miscreant using the handle “rose87168” boasted of cracking into two of Big Red’s login servers for customers and harvesting around six million records, which included clients’ private security keys, encrypted credentials, and LDAP…