Elsewhere, the gang brought the city of Antwerp to a grinding halt (do you see a pattern here?) with a similar ransomware outbreak. Data taken from the city of Oklahoma was leaked in small amounts in March of this year, after several service shutdowns caused by Play brought the city to a standstill. The Play Ransomware group will quite happily leak data in cases where no ransom is forthcoming. Considering the haul is supposed to include passport scans and more, this may still end up causing many problems for those folks in the stolen data. If the bank chooses not to pay the ransom, however, everything taken may be dumped online. We apologize for any inconvenience caused.Īccording to The Record, the bank has not said whether or not a ransom will be paid to the attackers. If there is a bright side here, it’s that people’s actual accounts and transactions have not been accessed. We continue to work hard to finish normalizing the situation and analyze what happened, prioritizing security at all times. It has not affected the transaction of the entity (neither the accounts nor the agreements of the clients have been compromised), so it can operate with total normality in electronic banking (Ruralvía), as well as in ATMs.įrom the outset, in #Globalcaja we activated the security protocol created for this purpose, which led us, out of prudence, to disable some office posts, temporarily limiting the performance of some operations. Yesterday, we registered a cyber incident, consisting of a computer attack on some local computers through a type #ransomware virus. El mismo no ha afectado al transaccional de la entidad (ni las cuentas ni los acuerdos de los clientes se… /LeQdNN8r1i
The gang claim to have swiped both private and personal information in the attack-including passport scans, contracts, and client / employee documents-which happened last week, but have not revealed exactly how much has been taken. The bank released a statement on June 2, which reads as follows:ĬOMUNICADO OFICIAL En el día de ayer, registramos un ciberincidente, consistente en un ataque informático a algunos equipos locales a través de un virus tipo #ransomware. Globalcaja, said to have more than 300 offices in Spain and close to half a million customers, has fallen victim to the Play ransomware gang. Ransomware is creating additional work for a major Spanish bank.
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