{"id":228405,"date":"2026-01-06T05:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/nordvpn-denies-breach-claims-says-attackers-have-dummy-data"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:14:04","slug":"nordvpn-denies-breach-claims-says-attackers-have-dummy-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/nordvpn-denies-breach-claims-says-attackers-have-dummy-data","title":{"rendered":"NordVPN denies breach claims, says attackers have \u201cdummy data\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nordvpn-denies-breach-claims-says-attackers-have-dummy-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NordVPN denied allegations that its internal Salesforce development servers were breached, saying that cybercriminals obtained \u201cdummy data\u201d from a trial account on a third-party automated testing platform.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s statement comes after a threat actor (using the 1,011 handle) claimed on a hacking forum over the weekend that they stole more than 10 databases containing sensitive information like Salesforce API keys and Jira tokens, following a brute-force attack against a NordVPN development server.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday i am leaking +10 DB\u2019s source codes from a nordvpn development server. This information was acquired by bruteforcing a misconfigured server of Nordypn, which has salesforce and jira information stored. Compromissed information: SalesForce api keys, jira tokens and more,\u201d the threat actor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NordVPN denied allegations that its internal Salesforce development servers were breached, saying that cybercriminals obtained \u201cdummy data\u201d from a trial account on a third-party automated testing platform. The company\u2019s statement comes after a threat actor (using the 1,011 handle) claimed on a hacking forum over the weekend that they stole more than 10 databases containing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}