Goldcorp, a leading gold producer based in Canada, acknowledged this week a data breach incident at the hands of unknown hackers, confirmed by DataBreaches.Net admin Dissent Doe for The Daily Dot.
Goldcorp Inc., is one of Canada’s biggest mining corporations, with mining sites all over the Americas, from Canada to the US, and from Mexico to the Dominican Republic.
Hackers stole 14.8 GB of company data
Hackers breached Goldcorp’s servers and siphoned off a large number of files, which they later uploaded online and announced the hack via a paste site. No other details about their hacking methods, the date of the server breach, or their identity were revealed.
The data dump includes files containing sensitive employee information, but also internal documents such as emails and reports that offered insight into the company’s activities.
According to the hacker’s statements and the content of the files, the following data has been confirmed as being present inside the data dump: T4 and W2 forms, payroll information, contracts with other companies, bank accounts, wire transfers, marketable securities, budget documents from 2012 – 2016, and treasury reports. For the full article click here
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