BT Group Shuts Down Some of its Servers after Black Basta Ransomware Attack

December 6, 2024

INCIDENT

Multinational telecommunications giant BT Group (formerly British Telecom) confirmed its BT Conferencing business division shut down some of its servers following a Black Basta ransomware breach. "The impacted servers do not support live BT Conferencing services, which remain fully operational, and no other BT Group or customer services have been affected."

Black Basta ransomware gang claimed they stole 500GB of data, including financial and organizational data, "users data and personal docs," NDA documents, confidential information, and more.

Incident Date

December 4, 2024

Estimated Cost


No cost values disclosed.

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source