Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes
Hand over the dough or your 40GB of secret data is toast.
Misleading headline.
From a better article:
with attackers demanding a $150,000 ransom in “baguettes,” an obtuse reference to the company’s headquarters being located in France. In reality, the attackers are looking for payment in Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency.
https://cyberscoop.com/schneider-electric-energy-ransomware-hellcat/
However, the hacker(s) indicated, that should Schneider publicly admit to this latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half. Thus, the ransom demanded would decrease to $62,500 worth of baguettes, we would presume. Even with a 50% deduction, that’s still a lot of dough.
Well, obviously? What else do you demand to go with your cheese?
Just some blokes making sandwiches, nothing to see here.
TIL that Schneider Electric is a French company. I always assumed it was American or Swiss.
I'm French and I assumed it was German
LOL
That's a lot of dough
Accessed through Jira huh, that's pretty epic but this aggression will not stand up! I can imagine the hackers sprinting away with baguettes under the their arm. Such a scrummy thing to do.
Well what should they do about it? They kanban them...
While I despise all these hackers these days, I feel like these companies deserve it, for their utterly non-existent data handling protocols.
published November 5, 2024
Well, today’s the 12th. What happened?
But they’d go rock hard stale before you got through 4 of them!
