Infoniqa IT incident: Cyber gang claims to have copied extensive data
Last week, an IT incident at HR software provider Infoniqa came to light. Now a cyber gang claims to have copied data.
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Infoniqa, a software and service provider for the HR sector, suffered an IT incident at the beginning of the month. Now the cyber gang "Warlock" has come forward on the darknet and is claiming responsibility for the break-in. They claim to have stolen large amounts of data, some of it sensitive.
A countdown on the criminal organization's underground website shows a duration of just over two days. A "View Data" button is currently (still) inoperable.
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According to the information tile, the members of the gang have copied 165Â GB of data from Infoniqa. This is said to include internal documents, financial documents, employee information, the CRM database, the HR database and a SaaS database.
Extensive data leaked?
The latter would presumably be the database containing the data that customers manage at Infoniqa. The cyber gang does not provide any evidence. There are no samples or excerpts or directory structures that would allow an evaluation.
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Infoniqa has not yet responded to our inquiry as to whether there is a ransom demand or whether the company can confirm the alleged data outflow. We will provide an answer here when it becomes available.
So far, Infoniqa has only confirmed that a cyberattack on the company's IT took place on the night of Monday, August 4, 2025. The company then immediately took protective measures and disconnected and shut down affected systems. Nevertheless, most products were still available to customers, with the exception of "ONE Start Cloud", for which an alternative is available. Last week, on August 12, all technical restrictions were said to have been resolved, Infoniqa told heise online.
The investigations were still ongoing last week. The company therefore did not want to provide any information on whether and what data had been leaked. However, "external cyber security experts and forensic specialists" have been tasked with analyzing the incident. Infoniqa is reportedly focusing on "thoroughness over speed".
(dmk)
