Cell C issues a warning after RansomHouse publishes stolen data

[mylesillidge]

Cell C hackers publish stolen data

Cell C has confirmed that data compromised through a cyber attack on its systems in late 2024 has been unlawfully disclosed by RansomHouse, the threat actor who claimed responsibility for the attack.

The mobile operator first disclosed the data breach on 8 January 2025, after RansomHouse claimed to have breached Cell C’s systems and stolen 2TB of data in November 2024.

 

[notinterested]

'It also told MyBroadband that the hacking group had not made any specific monetary ransom demands.'

What does this mean? Earlier in the article it is stated that the group specifically uses bitcoin as its ransom payment of choice.

Surely they didn't just do this for fun.

 

[SauRoNZA]

'It also told MyBroadband that the hacking group had not made any specific monetary ransom demands.'

What does this mean? Earlier in the article it is stated that the group specifically uses bitcoin as its ransom payment of choice.

Surely they didn't just do this for fun.

100% willing to bet they did make ransom demands to some published email address/mailing list that nobody was monitoring.

 

[notinterested]

100% willing to bet they did make ransom demands to some published email address/mailing list that nobody was monitoring.

Or cell c is just lying.