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Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by jjice »

mentalgear wrote: post #9

Ah, another notch in the belt for Larry Elison's Oracle data security scandals. Matches Larry's other political and societal scandals.

Tangential, but there’s an old interview with Ellison where he said that Amazon would never be able to get off of Oracle DB because it’s too critical a piece of software. This was in response to Amazon announcing it was something they had planned.

Amazon got it done ahead of schedule and there’s a video of them popping champagne to celebrate when they shut the last server down.

I’m not a big Amazon fan, but the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by bityard »

xdavidliu wrote: post #48
redleggedfrog wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As my buddy from Oracle likes to say, "No one cares what we do as long as the flow of streak, coke, and strippers doesn't stop." He's a big Zed Shaw fan.

what's "streak"? do you mean steak?

I thought it was some kind of trendy alcohol that I hadn't heard of, that probably comes in a brown bottle

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by prdonahue »

We're primarily an AWS shop but some Oracle BDR assigned to cover us recently reached out on LinkedIn.

I asked for an incident report and received this terse response:

> There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by blast »

prdonahue wrote: post #53

We're primarily an AWS shop but some Oracle BDR assigned to cover us recently reached out on LinkedIn. I asked for an incident report and received this terse response: > There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.

That exact statement is quoted in the OP too.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by _fat_santa »

legitster wrote: post #40

If you are already a customer of Oracle, I can't imagine this matters to you. You did not choose Oracle because it was a good product and they are a good company. You are a customer of Oracle because there was a backroom executive deal with the Devil. No one is surprised or outraged or even has any choices.

I've started seeing ads for Oracle OCI in some podcasts I listen to so I think they are starting to see if they can attract customers outside of their "enterprise sales process".

I'm not sure who those ads are supposed to appeal to besides the podcasts hosts raking in the ad dollars.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by sidewndr46 »

legitster wrote: post #40

If you are already a customer of Oracle, I can't imagine this matters to you. You did not choose Oracle because it was a good product and they are a good company. You are a customer of Oracle because there was a backroom executive deal with the Devil. No one is surprised or outraged or even has any choices.

I imagine Larry Ellison gave this exact speech right after this incident became public.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by prdonahue »

blast wrote: post #54
prdonahue wrote: post #53

We're primarily an AWS shop but some Oracle BDR assigned to cover us recently reached out on LinkedIn. I asked for an incident report and received this terse response: > There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.

That exact statement is quoted in the OP too.

Yeah, they've clearly been given some minimal company line and aren't deviating from it. Not going to win any trust.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by xyst »

This is a deliberate attempt to cover up their incompetence. It should be criminal to deceive the public and your _paying_ customers.

Executives need to go to jail. People need to be fired.

This won’t happen though, definitely not under this current administration.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by decimalenough »

prdonahue wrote: post #53

We're primarily an AWS shop but some Oracle BDR assigned to cover us recently reached out on LinkedIn. I asked for an incident report and received this terse response: > There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.

Per article, Oracle has hastily rebranded the breached service as "Oracle Classic", for the sole purpose of being able to claim with a straight face that "Oracle Cloud" was not impacted.

Re: Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?

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Post by brirec »

_fat_santa wrote: post #55
legitster wrote: post #40

If you are already a customer of Oracle, I can't imagine this matters to you. You did not choose Oracle because it was a good product and they are a good company. You are a customer of Oracle because there was a backroom executive deal with the Devil. No one is surprised or outraged or even has any choices.

I've started seeing ads for Oracle OCI in some podcasts I listen to so I think they are starting to see if they can attract customers outside of their "enterprise sales process". I'm not sure who those ads are supposed to appeal to besides the podcasts hosts raking in the ad dollars.

I haven’t seen the ads, but Oracle Cloud is definitely the public cloud provider with the most generous free tier. That’s not to say you should use and trust them, but I can see why many would.
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