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#318255 30-Dec-2024 21:31
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Hi folks 

 

I haven't seen this publicised yet, but it came to our attention that Compass was involved in a security event and there's a data breach.

 

I've contacted Compass/Zeronet and received the following statement:

 

 

Compass Communications
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Following our previous customer communication, we are aware of a potential data breach involving customer information.

 

We acted swiftly upon detecting the breach last month, notifying relevant Government authorities, including the Privacy Commissioner. Our investigation and response remain ongoing, and we continue to work closely with experts to address the situation and mitigate any risks.

 

We are proactively reaching out to customers to provide support and guidance to help protect their information.

 

Protecting customer data and ensuring transparency remain our highest priorities. However, due to the sensitive nature of this issue, we are unable to provide additional details at this time.

 

 

 

Below is a screenshot of the data leak being offered on the TOR network. If this is the actual data, it seems to include financial data, customer data, employee data, emails and project files.

 





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  #3326372 30-Dec-2024 21:48
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  #3326386 30-Dec-2024 23:15
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My understanding was they rebuilt the billing stack for Zeronet so hopefully those who only joined on the Zeronet brand are not affected unless they have done something really dumb.

 

Looking at https://compass.networkstatus.co.nz/ it could possibly be an ongoing DDoS affecting their hosting, managed services and internal business systems.


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  #3326402 31-Dec-2024 06:28
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@yitz I doubt this is a DDoS seeing their general site and some services are working. From experience these ransomware groups will encrypt a large part of a business and at a guess it could be the case here with having to investigate and perhaps restore from backups to fully recover.

 

Hopefully it isn’t too bad and their backups were running. 





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  #3326411 31-Dec-2024 07:49
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yitz:

 

My understanding was they rebuilt the billing stack for Zeronet so hopefully those who only joined on the Zeronet brand are not affected unless they have done something really dumb. ...

 

 

I hop you are correct.





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  #3326418 31-Dec-2024 08:33
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They have been crypto locked and ransomed.

I suspect since they aren't back up already that their backups were probably also compromised.

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  #3326564 31-Dec-2024 13:18
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@yitz @ANglEAUT - Looks like all Compass brands including Zeronet looking at the filelist. If you've got any credit card details loaded in the Zeronet portal I would just be on the safe side and replace that card.

 

So the group responsible appears to have hit more than once in December. Earlier in December a smaller dump was disclosed (250gb) and now where they claim to have 1.5tb worth of stolen data.

 

I'm not going to disclose anything other than this because it is incredibly harmful to them and all their staff, customers and suppliers. It's bad...





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