Oracle admits breach of ‘obsolete servers,’ denies main cloud platform affected

“No OCI customer environment has been penetrated,” the company insisted, but the hacker says otherwise. Credit: MDart10 / Shutterstock Oracle has continued to downplay a data breach it suffered earlier this year, insisting in an email sent to customers this week that the hack did not involve its core platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).Normally, a denial like this would be the end of the story, but the circumstances of this breach and Oracle’s confusing response to it over recent weeks have left some questioning the company’s account of the incident.This week’s email, forwarded to this publication by Oracle, claimed that the incident involved “two obsolete servers” unconnected to the OCI or any customer cloud environments. “Oracle would like to state unequivocally that the Oracle Cloud — also known as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or OCI — has NOT experienced a security breach,” stated the letter.“No OCI customer environment has been penetrated. No OCI customer data has been view...