Rex Mundi: Breaking News… That Really Isn’t News.

• in categories: advice, news • by: Michelle Balestrat

An open pizza box displaying a pepperoni supreme, with a stack of pizza boxes in the background.

A group of hackers has delivered (again) on threats made in June of last year to leak data from websites across France and Belgium, including pizza giant Domino’s regional arms, as well as a slew of Belgian employment, insurance and web hosting companies.

Rex Mundi hackers demanded a ransom of over $35,800 USD from Domino’s, in exchange for their data to be spared from a public spill. Other affected companies were also held to ransom, however all, including Domino’s, followed strict legal advice not to comply with the extortion attempts.

In November of 2014, Rex Mundi responded by opening the floodgates, leaking masses of email addresses, phone numbers, full names, internal communications and passwords on the popular code sharing website Pastebin. Newer hacks were also included, with some new breaches from Thomas Cook Belgium, Finalease Car Credit, and insurance company Mensura also among the leaks.

The hack was sizeable indeed: in total, there were an estimated 650,000 stolen records from Domino’s France and Belgium alone. BreachAlarm added this leak to its database as soon as it was released in November.

In a new development as of January 2015, the hacker group has now decided to host the leaked data on its own Deep Web site. However, the data stored within is almost identical to the original leak, making these new developments… well, kind of old news. Regardless, we’ve added them all to our database, so our subscribers can rest easy.

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