Frontier Communications Hit in Attack
Telecom provider, Frontier Communications, suffered an attack from a cybercrime group that was able to get into some of its IT systems which also led to operational disruptions “considered material.” After discovering the incident the company partially shut down some systems to prevent the attackers from moving across the network, which also led to operational disruptions.
The sample of the notice submitted to the Office of the Maine AG has censored the types of data exposed in this incident, but full names and Social Security Numbers (SSNs) were confirmed as breached for 751895 customers.
RansomHub claimed the attack, unless Frontier responds to their demands by June 14 they will sell the data to the highest bidder.
Incident Date
April 14, 2024
Location
Estimated Cost
Systems shutdown - data of >750.000 customers exposed