Estee Lauder gets data exfoliated

The beauty giant Estée Lauder is finally disclosing the painful impact of their Oracle EBS zero-day hack from August 2025. This unfortunate fashion victim suffered a massive exfiltration of personal, financial, and health information from their compromised instance. To protect ourselves from similar brand-damaging disasters, we must actively audit our enterprise resource planning systems instead of assuming they are safe. It turns out that expensive makeup cannot hide the ugly reality of an unpatched enterprise database system.