Vijay Sales allegedly hit by major data breach, super admin access and millions of records put up for sale on dark web

HIGHLIGHTS

Vijay Sales has reportedly faced a cybersecurity breach, with a threat actor claiming to have gained super administrator access to the etailer’s internal systems.

The threat actor is allegedly offering the access for $25,000.

The listing claims that the compromised systems contain more than 3 million order records, information belonging to around 15,000 employees, and billing records of approximately 140,000 vendors.

Vijay Sales allegedly hit by major data breach, super admin access and millions of records put up for sale on dark web

Vijay Sales has reportedly faced a cybersecurity breach, with a threat actor claiming to have gained super administrator access to the electronics retailer’s internal systems. According to a post shared by Dark Web Informer on X, an actor using the name ‘shinymontanna’ is allegedly offering this access for $25,000 on the dark web. The listing claims that the compromised systems contain more than 3 million order records, information belonging to around 15,000 employees, and billing records of approximately 140,000 vendors. However, the claims have not been verified so far. We also tried reaching out to Vijay Sales for a comment on the reported incident, but the company has not responded and is unreachable at the time of writing. The incident could expose information belonging to customers, employees and business partners of the retailer.

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Vijay Sales data breach: What data is allegedly compromised?

According to the post by Dark Web Informer, the alleged access goes beyond customer order information. The threat actor claims to have access to several internal databases and applications used by Vijay Sales.

The data reportedly includes customer details, payment records, bank transfer information, inventory data and financial reports. The exposed data is also said to include employee information and vendor billing records.

If these claims are true, the incident can expose information belonging to customers, employees and business partners of the retailer.

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Hacker claims super administrator access to Vijay Sales systems

The threat actor is allegedly offering super administrator access to Vijay Sales’ internal systems for $25,000. The listing reportedly claims that this access comes with read, write and export permissions. This means the alleged access could allow the person to view existing information, make changes to records and download data from the affected systems.

To support the claims, the actor has reportedly shared screenshots showing administrative dashboards and super administrator permissions. 

For now, the incident remains unverified and further confirmation from the company will be needed to know the extent of the possible breach.

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Ayushi Jain

Ayushi Jain

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