7-Eleven stores in Denmark closed due to a cyberattack

guest · Aug 8, 2022

August 8, 2022

7-Eleven stores in Denmark shut down today after a cyberattack disrupted stores’ payment and checkout systems throughout the country.

The attack occurred early this morning, August 8th, with the company posting on Facebook that they were likely "exposed to a hacker attack".
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The translated statement says that the company has closed all the stores in the country while investigating the security incident.

"Unfortunately, we suspect that we have been exposed to a hacker attack today, Monday 8 August 2022. This means that we cannot use checkouts and/or receive payment. We are therefore keeping the stores closed until we know the extent. We naturally hope that we can open the stores again soon." - 7-Eleven DK.
In a now-deleted Reddit post, an alleged 7-Eleven employee in Denmark also confirmed the cyberattack, saying they were forced to close the store after checkout systems stopped working.
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At this time, there are no further details about the attack, including whether ransomware was involved, which has become the most common cyberattack causing wide-scale outages.

This is a developing story.
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guest · Aug 10, 2022

7-Eleven Denmark confirms ransomware attack behind store closures
August 10, 2022

7-Eleven Denmark has confirmed that a ransomware attack was behind the closure of 175 stores in the country on Monday.

The company did not provide any info on the gang responsible other than confirming that threat actors breached their network and encrypted systems.

"This is a so-called ransomware attack, where the criminals have forced access to the network and locked the systems," 7-Eleven DK said in a statement on Facebook.
"The case is being handled in cooperation with the police, and 7-Eleven is currently not going to go into further detail about the investigation, the scope and the consequences of the attack."
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While the company says that there is no evidence that the attack has affected customers, partners, or supplies, now that we know it was a ransomware attack, we will likely also find out if the threat actors stole data soon.

No ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for the attack on 7-Eleven DK.
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