Security News > 2020 > May > Celebrity personal data taken in ransomware attack
Rather than simply knocking the law firm out of action temporarily, the ransomware crooks are said to have stolen personal data from a laundry list of celebrity clients, too - allegedly more than 750GB in total including contracts, contact information and "Personal correspondence".
In other words, the financial extortion is no longer just a "Kidnap ransom" to get your files back, but also a blackmail demand to stop the crooks leaking your data - or, worse still, your customers' data - to the world.
Less star-studded but no less worrying is a simulataneous report that global mailing equipment company Pitney Bowes has experienced an attack by the Maze ransomware.
Given that ransomware crooks are no longer just keeping you away from your data but also threatening to put the rest of the world in touch with it, prevention is very much better than cure.
Ransomware attacks that steal masses of data first, and where the crooks carefully learn their way around your network, very often leave telltale signs that someone is hanging around where they shouldn't.
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