Yet Another Shell Data Breach
FEBRUARY 2010 BREACH
WORLDS BIGGEST LEAK OF STAFF DATA AFFECTED OVER 176,000 SHELL EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS
Contact details for over 176,000 employees and contractors of Royal Dutch Shell reached John Donovan and some environmental and human rights groups, ostensibly from disaffected Shell staff calling for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company.
The database, from Shell’s internal directory contained names and telephone numbers for all the company’s workforce worldwide, including some home numbers. It was supplied to John Donovan with a 170 page covering note, explaining that it was being circulated by “116 concerned employees of Shell dispersed throughout the USA, the UK, and the Netherlands”, to highlight the harm done by the company’s operations in Nigeria.
Dear Shell LiveWIRE forum user,
As someone who has registered their details on the Shell LiveWIRE UK online forum, we want you to know that we have discovered unauthorised access to user registration data for the platform. Shell LiveWIRE UK, run on behalf of Shell International Limited, is one of Shell’s social investment enterprise development programmes.
As soon as we became aware of the incident, we took the entire UK LiveWIRE website, including the online forum, offline. We immediately notified the relevant data protection authority of the issue and explain below what we recommend you should do now.
What data has been compromised?
The user registration data for the UK LiveWIRE online forum was compromised. This includes user names and passwords and (if provided) email address, date of birth and a link to your social media page.
The latest Shell Data Breach was announced by Shell in March 2021.
Oil Giant Shell Victimized In December 2020 Hack (FORBES ARTICLE)
Royal Dutch Shell, the parent company of U.S.-based Shell Oil Company, has announced a security incident on its corporate website. Dozens of other companies were impacted by the same attack.
In December of 2020 hackers targeted a specific piece of hardware, Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance, with previously-unreported vulnerabilities. Once they breached the vulnerable servers the hackers began exfiltrating data.
Shell’s breach notice states that some of the files stolen “contained personal data and others included data from Shell companies and some of their stakeholders.”
shellplc.website and its sister non-profit websites royaldutchshellplc.com, royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellenergy.website, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net and shell2004.com are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia feature.
EBOOK TITLE: “SIR HENRI DETERDING AND THE NAZI HISTORY OF ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON
EBOOK TITLE: “JOHN DONOVAN, SHELL’S NIGHTMARE: MY EPIC FEUD WITH THE UNSCRUPULOUS OIL GIANT ROYAL DUTCH SHELL” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
EBOOK TITLE: “TOXIC FACTS ABOUT SHELL REMOVED FROM WIKIPEDIA: HOW SHELL BECAME THE MOST HATED BRAND IN THE WORLD” – AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.
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