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A cyber extortion group said it stole more than 1 terabyte of data from Novo Nordisk and was considering selling some of it after the company declined a $25 million demand.

FulcrumSec, a group that emerged in October 2025, said in a post on its website that it spent more than two months inside Novo Nordisk’s networks. It said the stolen material included source code, information on released and unreleased drugs, trial data, employee, doctor, and patient data, information tied to processing facilities, and internal artificial intelligence model information.

A Novo Nordisk spokesperson said in an email that the company “is aware of claims that data allegedly copied externally without authorization from our systems has been published online. We take this matter seriously and maintain continued operations of our main platforms. We are in contact with the relevant authorities.”

FulcrumSec told Reuters by email that Novo Nordisk representatives contacted it on June 3, about 48 hours after the group’s initial contact to unnamed company executives. It said the company used a random Proton Mail address and confirmed its identity by requesting specific files for verification.

The group said it would prefer not to sell the data, “as open sourcing it is a more effective deterrent for future companies to avoid paying.” It said that after Novo Nordisk refused to pay $25 million, it was “exploring private sales” of data tied to certain drugs and other internal material.

FulcrumSec said it would not share some stolen data, including information on thousands of employees and physicians, about 11,500 pseudonymized clinical trial patients, and data related to operational technology and software used with sensors and machinery at Novo Nordisk production facilities.

DataBreaches.net reported June 15 that FulcrumSec told the site it accessed Novo Nordisk’s network in March and shared purported correspondence beginning June 1, including a list of more than 700,000 files totaling about 1.3 terabytes. VX-Underground separately reported Monday on an unnamed hacker compromising Novo Nordisk. FulcrumSec said its attack was separate.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. signed an order Monday requiring Angela Perryman, 47, to remain at a federal quarantine facility in Omaha, Nebraska, after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention medical reviewer recommended that she be allowed to complete her quarantine at home.

Perryman, who was exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship in early May, said in a telephone interview with The New York Times that she had tested negative for the virus and had not developed symptoms. She said she learned of Kennedy’s decision when a copy of the order was slipped under her door.

After a hearing on her quarantine order, Dr. Michael Bell, the CDC’s quarantine medical reviewer, wrote Thursday that Perryman could return home for the rest of her 42-day quarantine with remote symptom monitoring once a day and 24-hour access to help “in the event she develops symptoms.”

“In my professional judgment, this less restrictive alternative is adequate to protect public health,” Bell wrote.

“This is the final proof that there is no check and balance on a basically indefinite detention under the public health law,” Perryman said.

Perryman was among 18 passengers on a cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak that killed three people and sickened several others. The passengers were flown back to the United States on May 11 and quarantined at the National Quarantine Unit in Omaha.

They were initially expected to return to their home states, but were later ordered to remain in Omaha at least until May 31. Some passengers were then allowed to complete quarantine at home through June 22 if local health officials agreed to monitoring arrangements that could include law enforcement or a community health worker.

She said 10 passengers remained in Omaha, and that she was the only one still being held against her will. Perryman, who lives part time in Florida, wanted to quarantine there, but Florida declined to meet the administration’s requirements, according to her lawyer, Steven Hyman.

Hyman said Kennedy’s order “flies in the face of the findings of the medical reviewer.”

Perryman said officials at the facility took her temperature twice a day, brought food on request, and allowed about an hour a day on a rooftop under armed guard.

“They’re polite and they’re not using physical violence against me, but otherwise it’s a prison,” she said.