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Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 13 2020, @01:35PM   
from the too-many-secrets dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow4275:

Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets:

The operators of the Sodinokibi Ransomware are threatening to publicly share a company's "dirty" financial secrets because they refused to pay the demanded ransom.

As organizations decide to restore their data manually or via backups instead of paying ransoms, ransomware operators are escalating their attacks.

In a new post by the Sodinokibi operators to their data leak site, we can see that attackers are not only publishing victim's data but also sifting through it to find damaging information that can be used against the victim.

In the above post, the attackers are threatening to sell the Social Security Numbers and date of births for people in the data to other hackers on the dark web.

They also intimate that they found "dirty" financial secrets in the data and threaten to disclose it.

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Original Submission

• So what? So what? (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday March 13 2020, @01:47PM (2 children)

  by ikanreed (3164) on Friday March 13 2020, @01:47PM (#970683) Journal

  It's not like the media's gonna report on it. It's not unknown that Wendy's broke an boycott on farmers who were using slave labor to grow tomatoes to save a few cents. That information is out there if anyone hunts for it.

  A few more secrets being dumped somewhere on the internet doesn't seem like it'll have much effect on anything.

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• Re:So what? (Score: 1) by DimestoreProstitute on Friday March 13 2020, @06:09PM

  by DimestoreProstitute (9480) on Friday March 13 2020, @06:09PM (#970799)

  Depends on who its leaked to right? After all, a few shady financial dealings leaked to the FTC or SEC could prove to be big trouble for certain companies.

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• Re:So what? (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:24PM

  by khallow (3766) on Saturday March 14 2020, @10:24PM (#971345) Journal

  It's not unknown that Wendy's broke an boycott on farmers who were using slave labor to grow tomatoes to save a few cents.

  What does that even say? Who's doing the boycott? How do you break a boycott? What does "slave labor" mean here? All I found was this [boycott-wendys.org].

  Due to the global crisis of the Covid-19 virus, which is affecting communities in every corner of the world, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the Follow the Money March, originally planned to take place between March 10-12 in New York City. The march has been postponed indefinitely, to be rescheduled once the risk has passed.
  
  We have made this decision following extensive internal deliberations, and taking into consideration the emergency declarations of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and several U.S. states. It is our responsibility to protect the health and safety of the Florida farmworkers and their families who have been planning and preparing to travel to New York for the action, as well as the health of the thousands of allies who were planning to come from all over the country to march with us. We take that responsibility extremely seriously, and so make this decision out of an excess of precaution and concern for the health of all involved.

  Would that be related? Should I be ordering my sandwiches from Wendy's with extra Mexican tomatoes to show my support for these Florida labor unions? I guess I don't like it when a labor union hides behind pseudo-concern for the exploited in cheaper lands. We know those Mexican tomato workers aren't going to be even a bit better off should the labor unions have their way with Wendy's.

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