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Global Airline Technology Provider Accelya Hacked by AlphV/Black Cat.

August 23, 2022

Accelya, a technology provider for many of the world’s largest airlines, said it recently dealt with a ransomware attack impacting some of its systems.

Accelya provides services to Delta, British Airways, JetBlue, United, Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines and many more. The company confirmed Tuesday that company data was posted on a ransomware leak site. The AlphV/Black Cat ransomware group published data it allegedly stole from Accelya last Thursday. The group claimed to have stolen emails, worker contracts and more.

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Nivea’s parent company, Beiersdorf, Target of NotPetya Attack

June 27, 2017

German skin care company Beiersdorf said it was a “target” of the cyberattack, which affected its IT and telephone systems. The firm’s headquarters in Hamburg, as well as its affiliates around the world, were affected. While Beiersdorf expects sales worth roughly €35 million ($41 million) to be shifted from the second quarter to the third, the company does not expect a material impact on its profits for this year.

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Saint-Gobain, a Major European Building Supply Maker Suffers NotPetya Cyberattack

June 27, 2017

French construction giant Saint-Gobain said Thursday, July 13, that it had restored all systems affected by the start of the week after the attack. The company said the attack led to downtime of IT systems and supply chain disruptions and claimed that no personal data had been lost. The NotPetya attack has had a negative impact of €220 million ($258 million) on sales and €65 million ($76 million) on operating income in the first half of 2017. Until the end of the year, total losses are expected to rise to €330 million ($387 million).

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FedEx TNT Global Operations Disrupted by NotPetya Attack

June 27, 2017

Operations of FedEx’s TNT Express unit in Europe were disrupted by the attack and the company previously warned that the financial cost of the incident was likely to be significant. While no data breach or data loss occurred as a result of Petya, the company previously warned that it may not be able to recover all of the systems affected by the cyber attack. “Most TNT Express services resumed during the quarter and substantially all TNT Express critical operational systems have been restored. However, TNT Express volume, revenue and profit still remain below previous levels,” the company said.

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Accenture Back Up After Ransomware Attack Report

August 11, 2021

Accenture said it has fully restored certain affected systems, after a hacker group attacked the consulting firm using LockBit ransomware and threatened to release the data in several hours.
“Through our security controls and protocols, we identified irregular activity in one of our environments. We immediately contained the matter and isolated the affected servers,” Accenture said in a Wednesday statement. “We fully restored our affected systems from backup, and there was no impact on Accenture’s operations, or on our clients’ systems.”

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Supply Chain Attack Guidance Released

July 2, 2021

While the supply-chain ransomware attack Friday leveraging a vulnerability in Kaseya VSA software against multiple managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers remains under investigation, small- to midsize manufacturing companies could feel the impact.

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Shell A Victim In Accellion Incident

March 16, 2021

Shell is the latest company to fall victim in a data security incident involving Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance (FTA). Like other companies within the manufacturing automation sector, Shell said in an advisory it published March 16 it uses the FTA appliance to securely transfer large data files.

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Winnti attack on Marriott

June 1, 2020

Marriott hotels suffered a breach which exposed the personal information of 5.2 million guests.

Consequences not disclosed. ARD, a public broadcaster reported that company had been attacked by a group associated with Chinese government with malware which allows attackers to access victims network remotely.

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Winnti attack on Covestro

June 19, 2020

Not disclosed. Covestro discovered Winnti on multiple systems in June of 2019.but believes it was present on the systems since 2018

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