Ansa McAl, became the victim of ransomware hackers holding some of the company’s IT systems hostage.
Uncertainty about the specific data and systems affected makes it challenging to determine whether the attack affected important information essential to Ansa's operations.
There were 17,000 papers in total, according to a snapshot of the stolen data.
The gang implied that it would make the private documents available on a public site in the post that announced the hack.
The perpetrator of this attack has been identified as the criminal cyber gang REvil.
Source: https://newsday.co.tt/2020/10/21/hack-attack-2/
"id": "THE74614523",
"linkid": "the-ansa-mcal-group-of-companies",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "10/2020",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"