487 gigabytes of data reportedly stolen from motorbike company Kawasaki Motors Europe (KME) have been made public by the RansomHub ransomware organisation. RansomHub is a new ransomware threat that gained popularity this year. Financial and corporate information were compromised, which makes cybersecurity worries for international companies more pressing.
The event was made public by the business last week, when it told clients that it was recovering from an unsuccessful hack that occurred in early September.
The company stated that servers were momentarily isolated and a cleansing procedure was started to examine all data and address any possible contamination as a precaution.
What Did Kawasaki State In Regrads to the Attack ?
“At the start of September, Kawasaki Motors Europe, (KME) was the subject of a cyber-attack which, although not successful, resulted in the company’s servers being temporarily isolated until a strategic recovery plan was initiated later on the same day.“
Kawasaki Motors Europe, (KME)
The Company Stated that Numerous servers are operated by KME and its national branches. As a precaution, it was decided to separate each server and implement a cleansing procedure that involved examining all data and identifying and addressing any questionable content.
Over the course of the next week, the KME IT department, its branch IT workers, and outside cyber security advisers isolated, inspected, and reconnected all of the servers.
Ransomhub Publicly Posts KME Data On There Portal
The Ransomehub group posted about the data on there official ransomhub portal. The classified data showed a storage space of 487Gb
Implication Of Leaked Kawasaki.eu data
The motorbike manufacturer did not specify the kind of malware it was the target of, but by the time the formal incident notice was released, the RansomHub ransomware group had already added Kawasaki to its Tor-based leak site.Owing to the extortion attempt’s failure, RansomHub carried out its threat over the weekend and made the material public.
Important business records, such as bank statements, internal correspondence, dealership details, and financial data, are among the exposed files.
Directories with names like “Dealer Lists,” “Financing Kawasaki,” “COVID,” “Trading Terms,” and others are among the partially disclosed data, and timestamps indicate activity as recently as early September.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other organisations released a unified alert to fight RansomHub, which only surfaced in February of this year and has already compromised over 200 people.
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