Schneider Electric Ransomware Crew Demands $125k Paid in Baguettes

Schneider Electric confirmed that it is investigating a breach as a ransomware group Hellcat claims to have stolen more than 40 GB of compressed data -- and demanded the French multinational energy management company pay $125,000 in baguettes or else see its sensitive customer and operational information leaked. The Register: And yes, you read that right: payment in baguettes. As in bread. Schneider Electric declined to answer The Register's specific questions about the intrusion, including if the attackers really want $125,000 in baguettes or if they would settle for cryptocurrency.

A spokesperson, however, emailed us the following statement: "Schneider Electric is investigating a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to one of our internal project execution tracking platforms which is hosted within an isolated environment. Our Global Incident Response team has been immediately mobilized to respond to the incident.âSchneider Electric's products and services remain unaffected."

They should accept the offer

[Mal-2]

Hackers usually try to get their payment without having to physically show up. $125k is a pretty low ask for one of these events too. I say do it... while law enforcement waits to pick them up immediately afterward.

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[TheRealMindChild]

This is a script kiddy that has no intention of actually collecting the baguettes. It is high school level shenanigans

perishable ransom

[awwshit]

Fun world where hackers just want to eat.

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[arglebargle_xiv]

Yeah, but what's the point of having all that in baguettes? You also want brie, roquefort, cornichons, fresh tomatoes, some beaujolais...

Question is..

[JamesTRexx]

Who are they blackmailing for the brie?

Should have asked for baguette *diamonds*

[BigIrv]

duh

Donut pay them!

[drainbramage]

Let them eat cake.

APC BackUPS

[dereference]

This company has owned APC [wikipedia.org] since 2007, so if you've purchased a BackUPS or a replacement battery pack, you're probably among the "sensitive customer" information allegedly involved.

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[viperidaenz]

Yeah, cause they'd totally have customer order information in their Jira system.