Back to all incidents

Halliburton

halliburton.com
CONFIRMED

Oilfield services corporation Halliburton filed Form 8-K Item 1.05 disclosing an unauthorized intrusion by RansomHub that forced the company to take global systems offline.

Observable Status CONFIRMED
Industry / Sector Energy & Oil Field Services
Incident Classification Network Intrusion & Ransomware
Attributed Threat Actor RansomHub
Affected Population Scope Under Audit
First Seen 2024-08-21
Last Updated 2024-09-03
Internal Business Applications Corporate Telemetry Data Operational Logistics Records Corporate Telemetry
OPEN WEIGHTS TELEMETRY • DETERMINISTIC CONFIDENCE

Confidence & Source Corroboration

94% CONFIDENCE
1. Primary Authority CONFIRMED BY REGULATOR Base weight: 65%
2. Evidence Specificity +19% Statutory Filing Verified
3. Corroboration Curve +7% 2 independent domains
4. Timeline & Staleness +3% 3 milestones logged
Corroborated Source Domains:
halliburton.com sec.gov
STATUTORY REGULATORY DISCLOSURES

Official Regulatory Filings & Legal Compliance Records

1 Verified Statutory Filing
Regulatory Ground Truth Standard: The disclosures below represent formal statutory filings and enforcement records submitted to government regulatory authorities (SEC, State Attorneys General, HHS OCR, CISA). In accordance with repository principles, this data is captured exactly as filed by the reporting entity and is never modified, overridden, or synthesized by AI models.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Form 8-K Item 1.05 (Material Cybersecurity Incidents)

CONFIRMED BY REGULATOR
Docket / Accession ID 0000045012-24-000067
Statutory Filing Date 2024-08-23
Disclosed Impact Scope Under Audit
Evidence Standard Regulatory Ground Truth
Statutory Filing Details & Summary (Preserved As Filed):

Item 1.05 Material Cybersecurity Incident disclosure filed by Halliburton Company reporting unauthorized third-party access to internal enterprise IT systems and activation of incident response protocols.

View Official Regulatory Filing Document https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45012/000004501224000067/hal-20240823.htm

Technical Forensic Briefing

Incident Overview

Oilfield services corporation Halliburton filed Form 8-K Item 1.05 disclosing an unauthorized intrusion by RansomHub that forced the company to take global systems offline.

Compromised Assets & Data Scope

  • Primary Data Classes: Internal Business Applications, Corporate Telemetry Data, Operational Logistics Records.

Statutory Disclosures & Compliance

  • Statutory filing submitted to SEC (Form 8-K (Item 1.05)) under accession 0000045012-24-000067.

Milestone Timeline (3 events logged)

2024-08-21 16:00 UTC
CONFIRMED BY TARGET

Energy giant Halliburton detects unauthorized third-party access to corporate systems and activates incident response protocols.

2024-08-23 17:15 UTC
CONFIRMED BY REGULATOR

Halliburton files Form 8-K Item 1.05 disclosing material disruption to business operations and systems shutdown.

2024-09-03 18:00 UTC
CONFIRMED BY REGULATOR

Form 8-K Item 8.01 supplemental filing confirms company is restoring operational capabilities and remediating core IT environments.

Have updated information or a new verifiable source?

This incident record is a flat Markdown file tracked in Git. Propose an update or add a milestone via Pull Request.

Propose Update via GitHub