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Major US oilfield servicing giant Halliburton has suffered a cloud-based cyber security attack, leading to the company requesting its staff disconnect from its network.
Halliburton is the world’s second-largest oilfield servicing company, with two headquarters in Texas and Dubai, as well as a foothold in 70 countries worldwide.
While the company initially provided no comment on the incident, an anonymous source familiar with the matter speaking with Reuters said that the attack impacted some global connectivity networks as well as the operations of Halliburton’s North Belt campus in Houston.
Additionally, the source said the company advised its staff not to connect to its internal networks.
Following this, a spokesperson speaking with various media sources confirmed that Halliburton knew of the incident and was investigating.
“We are aware of an issue affecting certain company systems and are working diligently to assess the cause and potential impact,” said the spokesperson.
“We have activated our pre-planned response plan and are working internally and with leading experts to remediate the issue.”
According to CNN, Halliburton declined to elaborate on the issue and reveal the nature of the incident.
Additionally, Cyber Daily has not observed any threat actors claiming responsibility.
Halliburton has a controversial history in the US, being behind most of the world’s largest fracking operations.
Additionally, the company had close links to former US vice president Dick Cheney, through whom it was granted a US$7 billion contract that no other company was authorised to bid on during the Iraq war, according to CyberNews.
There have been a number of cyber attacks on oil, energy and mining companies over the last year, with major multinational Shell reportedly suffering a data breach back in May.
The company was listed on the infamous BreachForums by a threat actor called “888”, who claimed to have uploaded 80,000 rows of data belonging to customers in Australia, the UK, France, India, Singapore, the Philippines, the Netherlands, Malaysia, and Canada.
In Australia, Shell is partnered with Coles Express for the retail side of its petrol stations. Coles Express was sold by Coles to Viva Energy in May 2023.
Based on the data listed, the database seems to show details of a customer loyalty program. Nectar is a loyalty program that can be used with a wide variety of businesses; however, Shell is not one of them.
The threat actor, 888, posted a sample of the allegedly stolen data, with the details of 10 individuals, all of whom are Australians shopping at Shell Coles Express locations.
Data allegedly included full names, emails, mobile numbers, postcodes, suburbs, states, country, last login, pay and association numbers, shopper codes, and more.
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