{"id":229940,"date":"2026-01-28T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/nike-investigates-data-breach-after-extortion-gang-leaks-files"},"modified":"2026-01-28T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:19:38","slug":"nike-investigates-data-breach-after-extortion-gang-leaks-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/nike-investigates-data-breach-after-extortion-gang-leaks-files","title":{"rendered":"Nike investigates data breach after extortion gang leaks files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nike-investigates-data-breach-after-extortion-gang-leaks-files.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nike is investigating what it described as a \u201cpotential cyber security incident\u201d after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked 1.4 TB of files allegedly stolen from the sportswear giant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously,\u201d the company told BleepingComputer in an email statement. \u201cWe are investigating a potential cyber security incident and are actively assessing the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the extortion group added Nike to its dark web data-leak site, claiming it stole nearly 190,000 files containing corporate data providing information on Nike\u2019s business operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nike is investigating what it described as a \u201cpotential cyber security incident\u201d after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked 1.4 TB of files allegedly stolen from the sportswear giant. \u201cWe always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously,\u201d the company told BleepingComputer in an email statement. \u201cWe are investigating a potential cyber security incident [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229940","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=229940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}