Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj are among the global celebrities currently targeted by a group of hackers called REvil in extortion plots against a law firm.
According to Daily Beast's previous report, Madonna, Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen are among dozens of celebrities included in the list celebrities targeted by REvil.
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Hackers infiltrated the computer networks of media and entertainment law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas and Sacks, with their business and personal data held for ransom by the group cyber attackers.
Industry sites such as Teiss stated that the cyber attackers called REvil claimed to have accessed 756GB information on many past and present clients which were announced in dark-web forums. Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Lady Gaga, Mary J. Blige, Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, Jessica Simpson, Bette Midler, Idina Menzel, Priyanka Chopra, and Run DMC are included in the list.
Contracts, phone numbers, nondisclosure agreements, private correspondence, and email addresses are included in the allegedly stolen data. An excerpt from a contract for Madonna's 2019-20 "Madame X" tour with Live Nation was posted by the REvil group as proof that it has breached the law firm's system.
The report clarified that the breached law firm held sensitive information such as confidential settlements, work contracts, and endorsement deals for the biggest stars in Hollywood and New York.
Hackers extortion plot against law firms is targeting Global Stars including Madonna and Lady Gaga
According to The Daily Beast, other celebrity clients could be at risk for the cyberattack including Jessica Simpson, Sofia Vergara, Naomi Campbell, Spike Lee, the Osbournes (Sharon, Ozzy, and Kelly), along with major companies such as EMI, HBO, Discovery, Imax, MTV, Music Group, Playboy Enterprises, Samsung Electronics, and many more.
Grubman Shire Meiselas and Sacks confirmed that they had been breached by a cyberattack. The law firm said that its staff and clients have been notified about the incident. Security experts who specialize in the area were hired to address the incident as soon as possible.
Allen Grubman, the father of the publicist Lizzie Grubman, founded the law firm. Lizzie was famously jailed after backing her SUV into a line of people waiting to enter a Hamptons nightclub, injuring more than a dozen people in 2001.
It has been reported that the hackers are using the threat of releasing the stolen data to seek ransom and also as leverage to extort payment. REvil is considered to be the same group of cyberattackers that successfully hacked Travelex, the UK-based currency exchange company, extorting over $2.3 million bitcoin. REvil boasted that it used "Sodinokibi" ransomware to successfully breach the entire network of Travelex.
The hackers originally demanded $6 million as a payment to return the encrypted files; however, REvil settled for the extracted $2.3 million bitcoin. Travelex was forced to shut down because of the incident, closing 1,500 outlets around the world.
