by Didi Rankovic at Reclaim the Net
Oracle faces scrutiny after data breaches hit Oracle Cloud and Oracle Health, undermining Larry Ellison’s AI surveillance ambitions.
While Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, and CTO Larry Ellison is busy trying to position his company as just the right provider of future centralized surveillance systems powered by AI and containing massive amounts of sensitive information – Oracle’s existing solutions are suffering embarrassing data breaches.
Two reported recent incidents affecting Oracle Cloud, and Oracle Health – a subsidiary providing software for the healthcare industry – revealed not only technical shortcomings but also the giant’s puzzling lack of transparency, which reports say extremely frustrated those affected.
In fact, Oracle continued to deny that the first breach happened at all – even as customers were starting to confirm it.
A hacker calling themselves “rose87168” earlier in March offered data belonging to six million Oracle Cloud customers, only for Oracle to tell Bleeping Computer, “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.”
The company attempting to “wordsmith statements” is how cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont reacted to this.
“Oracle is attempting to wordsmith statements around…
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