{"id":3490104,"date":"2026-06-10T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/cybercriminals-assert-compromise-of-oracle-peoplesoft-servers-at-over-100-entities\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:33:32","slug":"cybercriminals-assert-compromise-of-oracle-peoplesoft-servers-at-over-100-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/cybercriminals-assert-compromise-of-oracle-peoplesoft-servers-at-over-100-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals assert compromise of Oracle PeopleSoft servers at over 100 entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cybercriminals-assert-compromise-of-oracle-peoplesoft-servers-at-over-100-entities.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for breaching Oracle PeopleSoft servers across over 100 entities, including numerous universities, a member of ShinyHunters revealed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. The incidents were initially reported by BleepingComputer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PeopleSoft is an enterprise application created for managing payroll, human resources, administration, and various business functions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This development demonstrates that even as one of the most prominent and active cybercrime organizations currently, ShinyHunters continues to thrive, specializing in large-scale hacks. Their approach involves identifying a flaw in widely-used software, enabling them to target multiple victims simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cData on students, applicants, financial aid, immigration, health, and administrative matters has been extracted,\u201d stated a message reportedly sent by the hacker to one of the affected parties. The hackers asserted they obtained student information, which includes residential addresses, phone numbers, emails, and birth dates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hacker mentioned that the majority of the schools targeted had previously been breached in other, unrelated attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the group\u2019s member, their initial objective was to infiltrate an FBI PeopleSoft server, aiming to release a statement disavowing ShinyHunters\u2019 involvement in a series of swatting incidents highlighted by the FBI in a warning last month. This attempt, the member indicated, was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oracle did not reply to an inquiry for comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cybercriminals-assert-compromise-of-oracle-peoplesoft-servers-at-over-100-entities.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for breaching Oracle PeopleSoft servers across over 100 entities, including numerous universities, a member of ShinyHunters revealed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. The incidents were initially reported by BleepingComputer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PeopleSoft is an enterprise application created for managing payroll, human resources, administration, and various business functions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This development demonstrates that even as one of the most prominent and active cybercrime organizations currently, ShinyHunters continues to thrive, specializing in large-scale hacks. Their approach involves identifying a flaw in widely-used software, enabling them to target multiple victims simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cData on students, applicants, financial aid, immigration, health, and administrative matters has been extracted,\u201d stated a message reportedly sent by the hacker to one of the affected parties. The hackers asserted they obtained student information, which includes residential addresses, phone numbers, emails, and birth dates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hacker mentioned that the majority of the schools targeted had previously been breached in other, unrelated attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the group\u2019s member, their initial objective was to infiltrate an FBI PeopleSoft server, aiming to release a statement disavowing ShinyHunters\u2019 involvement in a series of swatting incidents highlighted by the FBI in a warning last month. This attempt, the member indicated, was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oracle did not reply to an inquiry for comments.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3490105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3490105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}