Hackers threatened to leak Google’s databases if the company didn’t fire two of its employees, according to a message posted on Telegram.
The message, allegedly from a hacking group, called on the tech giant to fire Austin Larsen and Charles Carmakal and to suspend investigations by Google’s Threat Intelligence group into the network.
The group is reportedly a hacking network made up of members of other hacking communities, including Scattered Spider, LapSus, and ShinyHunters. The group named itself Scattered LapSus Hunters in reference to the message.
Mr. Larsen and Mr. Carmakal both work for Google’s Threat Intelligence group.
While the group has not provided any evidence of accessing Google’s databases and no recent Google data breaches have been noted, this news follows Google’s announcement in August that ShinyHunters had obtained information from Salesforce, a third-party service provider to Google.