Telstra

Telstra was compromised in a ransomware attack attributed to scattered lapsus$ hunters in October 2025. The organization, operating in the Telecommunications sector in Australia, was added to the group's data leak site as part of an extortion campaign.

scattered lapsus$ hunters operates as a financially motivated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation, exfiltrating sensitive data and threatening public disclosure to pressure victims into paying ransom demands.