Subj : Cloud hosting company customers lose all their data following ran
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Aug 24 2023 10:45:03

Cloud hosting company customers lose all their data following ransomware 
attack

Date:
Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:32:35 +0000

Description:
CloudNordic suffers devastating ransomware attack that sees it lose all 
customer data.

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A ransomware attack against two sister cloud hosting companies resulted in a 
total loss of all the data they were holding for their customers. 

CloudNordic, and Azero, both owned by the Danish firm Certiqa Holding, posted 
an announcement on their websites stating that they had fallen victim to a 
ransomware attack in the early morning of Friday 18, 2023. 

The attack resulted in the shutdown of all of their systems, including the 
websites, email servers, as well as encrypted customer data. No data exfil, 
too 

The attackers managed to encrypt all servers' disks, as well as on primary 
and secondary backup systems, whereby all machines crashed and we lost access 
to all data, CloudNordic said on its website (machine translated). 

To add insult to injury, the attackers didnt even do what they usually do - 
steal the data before encrypting it. CloudNordic says theres no evidence of 
the data being exfiltrated beforehand, meaning that its very much lost for 
good. The identity of the threat actor is unknown, and so is the demanded 
sum. Whatever the sum is, the victim decided not to pay, partly because they 
apparently didnt have the money. 

So far, no ransomware operators assumed responsibility for the attack. Read 
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CloudNordic is not yet entirely certain how the attackers compromised its 
systems, but speculates that it has to do with the migration of its servers 
from one data center to another. During that migration, a previously 
compromised endpoint was connected to a separate network that had access to 
its internal endpoints, ending in disaster. 

Through the internal network, attackers gained access to central 
administration systems and backup systems, the company concluded. 

At press time, both companies were unresponsive to media inquiries. On its 
website, CloudNordic said that communication has been made difficult. Here 
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Via: TechCrunch



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cloud-hosting-company-customers-lose-al
l-their-data-following-ransomware-attack


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