Red Hat Hit by Data Breach, Hackers Exploit GitLab Instance

Red Hat Hit by Data Breach, Hackers Exploit GitLab Instance

An extortion gang by the name of Crimson Collective claimed to have stolen approximately 570GB of compressed data from internal development repositories belonging to Red Hat. Red Hat confirmed the breach impacted one of its GitLab instances.

The stolen data contains around 800 Customer Engagement Reports (CERs), which contain sensitive data about a customer’s platform and network. A CER is a consulting document made for clients that includes infrastructure data, configuration details, authentication tokens, and other data that could be exploited to attack customer networks. 

Red Hat confirmed that it was hit by a security breach impacting its consulting business, but it has not confirmed any of the threat actor’s claims about the stolen GitLab repositories and customer CERs. 

According to Bleeping Computer’s conversation with the hacker, the breach happened two weeks ago. Threat actors allegedly accessed the full database URIs, authentication tokens, and private data in Red Hat CERs and code. They claim that the data was used to get access to the downstream customer infrastructure.

The hacking gang also released a full directory containing the list of the allegedly extracted GitLab repositories and a list of CERs between 2020 and 2025 on Telegram. 

The directory list of CERs contains various sectors and famous organization

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