Hackers exploited a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer software last week to access a range of information which is now casting a cloud over a growing number of UK firms and their staff.
In an email to Reuters on Monday, the hackers said “it was our attack” and that victims who refused to pay a ransom would be named and shamed on the group’s website.
Work by Microsoft had earlier suggested that the Russian-speaking ransomware gang was behind the attack.
It emerged last week that a so-called zero-day vulnerability – a flaw – in the file transfer system MOVEit, produced by Progress Software, had been exploited by cyber criminals.
In an email to Reuters on Monday, the hackers said “it was our attack” and that victims who refused to pay a ransom would be named and shamed on the group’s website.
Work by Microsoft had earlier suggested that the Russian-speaking ransomware gang was behind the attack.
It emerged last week that a so-called zero-day vulnerability – a flaw – in the file transfer system MOVEit, produced by Progress Software, had been exploited by cyber criminals.
The BBC and Boots, which has 50,000 staff, said they had been affected too.
The broadcaster did not believe its employees’ bank details had been exposed though company ID and national insurance numbers were compromised.
The airline employs 34,000 people in the UK.
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