The Washington Post

DISCLOSED 2025-11-13 · UNPATCHED CVE · 10,000 RECORDS EXPOSED

The Washington Post disclosed that data on nearly 10,000 individuals was stolen from its Oracle E-Business Suite environment. The breach is part of a broader campaign by the Cl0p ransomware group targeting Oracle customers. The compromised data includes human resources information.

The record

What we know

Disclosed

2025-11-13

Attack vector

Unpatched Cve

Sector

media

Country

Records exposed

10,000

Domain

washingtonpost.com

Data classes exposed

human resources data

ColdRecon assessment

Could a positive-security control have prevented this?

Verdict · unclear · opinion

The attack targeted an Oracle E-Business Suite application, not endpoints; a positive-security model on the application server might have helped if it could detect unauthorized changes, but details are insufficient to assess.

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Sources

Cited reporting

↗ cyberscoop.com (2025-11-13)

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