Security News > 2020 > December > Clop Gang Gallops Off with 2M Credit Cards from E-Land

On Thursday, the gang claimed that it stole 2 million credit cards from South Korean retailer E-Land over a one-year period, in a campaign that culminated with a ransomware attack on the company's headquarters in November.

Operators of Clop ransomware reportedly said that they were responsible for the November attack that forced E-Land - a subsidiary of E-Land Global - to shut down 23 of its New Core and NC Department Store locations.

The group claimed that the company did not suspect it was leaking data and seemed taken by surprise by the Clop ransomware attack on Nov. 22, which forced E-Land to suspend operations at nearly half of its stores in South Korea, according to the report.

The Clop ransomware gang was first discovered in February 2019 by MalwareHunterTeam and since then has been a persistent threat with a particularly potent modus operandi.

In April, the Clop gang struck biopharmaceutical company ExecuPharm and reportedly leaked some of the company's compromised data on cybercriminal forums after the ransom went unpaid.

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