Tag: Cyberattacks

The IT systems outage for car dealerships caused by a mid-June ransomware attack still lasted two weeks. CDK Global reportedly paid $25 million to cybercriminals after a mid-June ransomware attack disrupted business for thousands of car dealerships. According to a report from CNN citing multiple sources, software maker CDK paid the ransom to accelerate the…

An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed the theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed that the massive theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. The disclosure came as the telecom giant…

Advance Auto Parts disclosed that data belonging to 2.3 million customers was exposed in an April attack targeting its Snowflake deployment. More details have emerged on what appears to have been another serious data breach linked to a campaign targeting Snowflake customers, with Advance Auto Parts disclosing that data belonging to more than 2 million…

Two weeks after it was struck by a ransomware attack, the software maker says that ‘substantially all’ of the car dealerships it serves are back online. CDK Global said Tuesday that “substantially all” of the car dealerships it serves are back online, two weeks after the software maker was struck by a crippling ransomware attack.…

The software maker says it’s continuing to restore systems nearly two weeks after it was struck by a ransomware attack. CDK Global said Monday that it expects to complete the recovery from its recent ransomware attack by later this week, with a projection that all car dealerships will be reconnected to its platform by July…

Additional customers are now believed to have had their emails viewed in connection with the compromise of Microsoft’s corporate email system by the Midnight Blizzard threat group. Microsoft has reportedly sent out more notifications to customers impacted by the compromise of its corporate email system by Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard. According to Bloomberg, the…

The software maker says it’s making progress on bringing dealerships back onto its core systems. As CDK Global continues making progress on bringing customers back onto its core platform after a crippling ransomware attack, cybersecurity experts told CRN that the massive disruption to car dealerships is another sign of the trade-offs involved in the growing…