GoKawiilResidential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data.
The company identified the attack on July 20 and immediately activated its incident response procedure to contain the breach.
William Niles, CEO at Brinks Home, said that the company’s team was working with “leading forensics experts to address this issue.”
The intrusion did not impact in any way the company’s alarm monitoring and system functionality.
At the beginning of the week, the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed the attack on Brinks Home, alleging that they stole more than 4.9 million Salesforce records with personally identifiable information (PII).
Brinks Home listed on ShinyHunters data leak site
source: BleepingComputer
Brinks Home generates approximately $830 million in annual revenue, employs up to 1,500 people, and provides home security services to more than 1 million customers across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
It provides home security systems and services, like sensors, panels, and cameras, as well as smart home automation products (e.g., locks, thermostats, plugs).
In a conversation with BleepingComputer, ShinyHunters said that they breached Brinks Home on July 13 in a Microsoft Entra voice phishing (vishing) attack.
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