--- title: Ex-Employee Sues Washington Post Over Oracle EBS-Related... description: A former Washington Post employee filed a class-action lawsuit after a data breach exposed personal information of 9,720 current and former employees and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ex-employee-sues-washington-post-over-oracle-ebs-related-data-breach-bl6zc80zz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ex-Employee Sues Washington Post Over Oracle EBS-Related Data Breach | daily.dev og:description: A former Washington Post employee filed a class-action lawsuit after a data breach exposed personal information of 9,720 current and former employees and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ex-employee-sues-washington-post-over-oracle-ebs-related-data-breach-bl6zc80zz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BL6Zc80zz.png og:image:alt: Ex-Employee Sues Washington Post Over Oracle EBS-Related Data Breach og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ex-Employee Sues Washington Post Over Oracle EBS-Related Data Breach **[Security Boulevard](https://daily.dev/sources/securityboulevard)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A former Washington Post employee filed a class-action lawsuit after a data breach exposed personal information of 9,720 current and former employees and contractors. The breach resulted from exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-61882) in Oracle E-Business Suite by the Cl0p ransomware group. The lawsuit claims inadequate cybersecurity measures, with the attacker accessing data between July and August 2025. The Post has applied Oracle's fixes and is offering identity protection services to victims. Nearly 100 companies have been affected by this Oracle EBS vulnerability campaign. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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