Hackers Renege On Threat To Publish Dominos Customer Data

Although Dominos Pizza refused to pay a ransom, the hacking group Rex Mundi has yet to follow through on threats to release stolen customer data.

Last week, hacking group Rex Mundi
announced
that it had stolen the customer records of 650,000 French and Belgian pizza fans, and would publish those records unless Dominos paid a ransom of €30,000 by Monday at 8:00 p.m. CST. Dominos refused. Yet its now three days since the deadline to pay up passed, and Rex Mundi has still not followed through on its promise to publish the data it stole.
The data in question was slurped from the pizza chains Belgian and French websites, where it was secured with a wee MD5 hash.
Rex Mundi claimed:
We downloaded over 592,000 customer records (including passwords) from French customers and over 58,000 records from Belgian ones. Thats over six hundred thousand records, which include the customers full names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords and delivery instructions. (Oh, and their favorite pizza topping as well, because why not).
Dominos acknowledged, via Twitter, that theyd received the ransom request. The company has said it will not concede to the hackers demands, and pointed out that the breached records do not contain financial information.
Rex Mundi did release six customer records (
sans
pizza topping preferences) as proof that they had the information. So far thats all theyve revealed.
This is not the first time that Rex Mundi has demanded ransoms for stolen data, nor is it the first time that theyve had their demands ignored. In April they did release the names of 12,000 customers of Belgian hosting firm Alfa Hosting, after the firm initially declined to pay up. Rex Mundi never disclosed the rest of the sensitive data they claimed to have -- either because Alfa had a change of heart and paid up or perhaps because Rex Mundi never had the info they claimed to have. In June 2012, they did follow through on threats, revealing thousands of records about bank loan applicants, including truncated Social Security numbers, when AmeriCash Advance refused to pay a $15,000 ransom.
Ransom requests have become a growing category of cybercrime, largely because of the popularity of CryptoLocker. No ransomware was used in this attack.
In its original announcement, the group pointed out that both of the hacked websites were still up and vulnerable. The sites remain up for now. Dominos has advised customers to change their passwords.

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