Dell scoffs at breach, says miscreants only stole ‘fake data’

Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data." On Monday, WorldLeaks, a rebrand of the Hunters International extortion gang, posted Dell Technologies on its leak site and claimed to have exfiltrated 1.3 TB of data …

[Phil Kingston]

I've seen too many developers lazily copy live datasets into dev/test that yeah, they're screwed.

[wolfetone]

Pride comes before a fall guys. Remember, be humble.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

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The hackers got away with our entire marketing/support data and nothing of value

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Fake data!

So that would be the data indicating why Dell hardware is best-of-breed product superior to all others?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Dell scoffs at breach, says miscreants only stole ‘fake data’ "

The 'fake data' was, of course, for Dell's fake customers.

"My fake plants died because I didn't pretend to water them."---Dave Barry