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Hacking group claims major hack of Novo Nordisk and attempted $25 million extortion
FulcrumSec said it copied 1.3 terabytes of files, including source code and trial data, after Novo Nordisk refused to pay $25 million.
- On Tuesday, the cyber extortion group FulcrumSec claimed it stole over 1.3 terabytes of data from Novo Nordisk, seeking private sales after the pharmaceutical giant rejected a $25 million extortion demand.
- FulcrumSec, which emerged in October 2025, spent more than two months in Novo Nordisk networks and shared a list of more than 700,000 files with DataBreaches on June 14 after gaining access in March.
- The stolen data includes roughly 11,500 pseudonymised clinical trial records, though Novo Nordisk stated that direct identifiers were not affected and the incident poses no immediate risks to trial participants.
- Nathan Wenzler, a field chief information security officer at Optiv Security, warned that stolen data could enable sophisticated phishing scams; Novo Nordisk launched an investigation with external cybersecurity experts.
- Thomas Willkan, head of research at Lab-1, described FulcrumSec as "usually quite legit" regarding its capabilities, while the group withheld operational technology data as part of its "harm-reduction strategy.
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