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Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related To Some of the World's Largest Companies (vice.com) 46

Hackers have broken into an internet infrastructure firm that provides services to dozens of the world's largest and most valuable companies, including Oracle, Volkswagen, Airbus, and many more as part of an extortion attempt, Motherboard reported Tuesday. From the report: The attackers have also threatened to release data from all of those companies, according to a website seemingly set up by the hackers to distribute the stolen material. Citycomp, the impacted Germany-based firm, provides servers, storage, and other computer equipment to large companies, according to the company's website. Michael Bartsch, executive director of Deutor Cyber Security Solutions, a firm Citycomp said was authorized to speak about the case, confirmed the breach to Motherboard in an email Tuesday. "Citycomp has been hacked and blackmailed and the attack is ongoing," Bartsch wrote. "We have to be careful as the whole case is under police investigation and the attacker is trying all tricks."
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Hackers Steal and Ransom Financial Data Related To Some of the World's Largest Companies

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  • by Opportunist ( 166417 ) on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @07:59AM (#58515690)

    You don't slaughter the goose that lays the golden eggs! For years you have ripped off users and small businesses, but you couldn't get enough. You had to target corporations that can buy laws that will make your business model impossible. And cause some collateral damage to the net as well.

    • by DarkOx ( 621550 )

      That seems to be the undoing of most of these criminal enterprises. Eventually someone gets greedy and rips off someone important who can't or wont be ignored.

    • by StormReaver ( 59959 ) on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:39AM (#58516214)

      What's even stupider is the notion of running your crucial business operations on someone else's computers. These third parties don't give one rat's ass about your security. They exist solely to leech money from your company accounts.

      Anyone who outsources their important operations to "cloud" service providers need to be immediately fired.

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      • What's even stupider is the notion of running your crucial business operations on someone else's computers. These third parties don't give one rat's ass about your security. They exist solely to leech money from your company accounts.

        Anyone who outsources their important operations to "cloud" service providers need to be immediately fired.

        Yet, you use hardware created and designed by other people?! You FOOL! You should only hold your data on hand-written hard copy in your concrete bunker!

  • If it's anything like all the places I've worked...out of the 500GB of data, there'll be 250GB of emails of employees bitching about each other, moaning about no pay rises or bonuses and arranging what they'll be doing on Friday nights after work. 200GB of word and xls docs full of tedious graphs that contains tons of info never say anything useful. 40GB will be a load of leftover JPGs and movie files of the official office Xmas parties and other corp events. Finally there might be 5-10GB of info leftover
  • If they steal the data just to make themselves richer, they are not worthy of calling them Hackers. Hackers steal data so that people would get the info about something that is important, not to make themselves richer. I guess Hackers behaving like this is the sign of times. Greedy times.
  • The age of information, where only the thieves a honest.

    Can't wait to see the skeletons in those closets.

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