British American Tobacco Suffers Data Breach and Ransomware Attack

guest · Dec 7, 2019

British American Tobacco Suffers Data Breach and Ransomware Attack
December 4, 2019
https://www.securitymagazine.com/ar...cco-suffers-data-breach-and-ransomware-attack

A Romanian web platform owned by the international tobacco company British American Tobacco (BAT) has suffered a data breach and ransomware attack.

The data breach was discovered on an unsecured Elasticsearch server located in Ireland, which involves close to 352 GB of data. In addition, they found that hackers had already gotten to the data and that the server also contained a readme file with a ransom request, in which a hacker or group of hackers threatened to delete the data from the server if their demands aren’t met. The hackers are demanding a Bitcoin payment in exchange for the data.

Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, internet privacy researchers from vpnMentor, found the data breach on a server connected to the web platform YOUniverse.ro. The web platform is part of a BAT Romania promotional campaign targeting adult smokers, says vpnMentor.
As of November 27th the database was finally closed, but nobody ever replied to the researchers.
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