Ransomware Attack at NCR

April 17, 2023

INCIDENT

NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale (PoS) platform after being hit by an ransomware attack claimed by the BlackCat/ALPHV gang.
NCR provides digital banking, PoS point of sale system, and payment processing solutions for restaurants, businesses, and retailers
On Friday, NCR released a statement saying: “On April 13, NCR determined that a single data center outage that is impacting some functionality for a subset of its commerce customers was caused by a cyber ransomware incident. Upon such determination, NCR immediately started contacting customers, enacted its cybersecurity protocol and engaged outside experts to contain the incident and begin the recovery process. The investigation into the incident includes NCR experts, external forensic cybersecurity experts and federal law enforcement.

Incident Date

April 13, 2023

Location

United States

Estimated Cost

Unsure right now

Victims

Type of Malware

No Malware identified

Threat Source