Security News > 2020 > December > Largest global staffing agency Randstad hit by Egregor ransomware
Staffing agency Randstad NV announced today that their network was breached by the Egregor ransomware, who stole unencrypted files during the attack.
Randstad is the world's largest staffing agency with offices in 38 markets and the owner of the well-known employment website Monster.com.
After the threat actors published their data, Randstad issued a security notification confirming that the Egregor ransomware operation attacked them.
"To date, our investigation has revealed that the Egregor group obtained unauthorized and unlawful access to our global IT environment and to certain data, in particular related to our operations in the US, Poland, Italy and France," Randstad disclosed.
The Egregor ransomware operation has been extremely active over the past week, with successful attacks against Metro Vancouver's transit system TransLink and the big-box department store Kmart.