Barts Health NHS discloses data breach after Oracle zero-day hack
Barts Health NHS Trust has announced that Clop ransomware actors have stolen files from a database by exploiting a vulnerability in its Oracle E-business Suite software. [...]
Oracle develops databases, cloud services, and business software; vulnerabilities in these products can expose sensitive data and systems.
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Oracle is an enterprise technology ecosystem best known in security contexts for Oracle Database, along with Java, application servers, business applications, and cloud services. These products often process sensitive business and personal data, so the tag commonly covers vulnerabilities, insecure configurations, and security updates affecting Oracle software and its integrations.
Material risks include exposed database listeners or management interfaces, excessive privileges, weak authentication, SQL injection, and vulnerable components that may permit unauthorized queries or code execution. Practitioners should inventory Oracle versions and dependencies, apply relevant security updates through controlled testing, restrict network access, enforce least privilege and encryption, and monitor database activity. Advisories should be assessed against the exact product and release, exploit prerequisites, and available mitigations; unsupported versions may remain exposed to known flaws.
Barts Health NHS Trust has announced that Clop ransomware actors have stolen files from a database by exploiting a vulnerability in its Oracle E-business Suite software. [...]
The University of Phoenix (UoPX) has joined a growing list of U.S. universities breached in a Clop data theft campaign targeting vulnerable Oracle E-Business Suite instances in August 2025. [...]
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has confirmed a new data breach after attackers stole documents containing personal information from its Oracle E-Business Suite servers in August. [...]