Saturday, 18 July, 2026
Data Held Hostage: Hackers Breach Colombia’s Oil Giant Ecopetrol
By TechShots Studio
An unidentified cyberattacker successfully breached the cloud storage of Ecopetrol and 15 of its subsidiaries, stealing sensitive data tied to roughly 3,300 user accounts. While the state-controlled Colombian energy giant managed to block an accompanying ransomware attack, the hacker has issued extortion demands, threatening to leak the information. Operations remain unaffected, but the company warns of potential future financial impacts.