Exploit: Ransomware
Adata: Computer Chip Maker
Risk to Business: 1.801 = Severe
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has announced that they’ve acquired more than 700GB of archived data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. A set of 13 archives, allegedly containing sensitive ADATA files, have been publicly available at a cloud-based storage service, at least for some time. According to reports, the largest archive is close to 300GB, and the second largest is 117GB and the archives likely contain corporate financial information, non-disclosure agreements, and sales data.
Individual Impact: There has not yet been confirmation that consumer personal or financial information has been compromised in this incident but the investigation is ongoing.
Customers Impacted: Unknown
How it Could Affect Your Customers’ Business: That’s a huge trove of data that will be very popular in hacker marketplaces and pain for ADATA for years to come.
Source: Bleeping Computer