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Jack Daniel’s-Maker Suffers REvil Ransomware Breach:
The Jack Daniel’s-maker has released few details about the incident but claimed it successfully prevented attackers from encrypting its files.
“We are working closely with law enforcement, as well as world class third-party data security experts, to mitigate and resolve this situation as soon as possible,” it added in a brief statement. “There are no active negotiations.”
However, as is often the case, the attackers appear to have taken extra steps to force a ransom payment from the company. They told Bloomberg that 1TB of corporate data is now in their hands and it will most likely be leaked online in batches to turn up the pressure on the Louisville, Kentucky-headquartered firm.
The group apparently responsible for this attack is Sodinokibi (REvil), which, like Maze and other gangs, maintains a dedicated leak site to post stolen data on.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 17 2020, @09:01PM (1 child)
Yikes! How about just having the company relocate? Or having the county go "wet"?
You didn't happen to set the Jim Beam fire, did you?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday August 18 2020, @04:23AM
The county obviously doesn't want to go "wet", or they would have done so already. Clearly, the county is run by a bunch of religious loons who are also hypocrites, railing against the "evils" of alcohol just like the Prohibitionists a century ago, but this time perfectly happy to profit off it as long as it's a scourge happening to other people (they're the ones who think it's evil and a scourge, which is why it's a dry county). These same people probably publicly claim child pornography to be horrible (which I agree it is), but would happily profit off it if they could figure out a legal way to do so, despite the clear harm it does to minors involved in the sex trade.